The Central Environment Authority (CEA) has taken steps to sterilize the area in which imported waste containers have been kept at the Colombo Port, a senior CEA official said.
A private nanotechnology company will carry out this process known as ozone sterilizing until the containers are shipped back, CEA Chemicals & Hazardous Waste Management Unit Director Ajith Weerasundara stated.
At present, 111 containers of clinical and hazardous waste which had been imported from UK currently remain at the Colombo Port, and has posed major health concerns especially for its employees, he noted.
Earlier this week, Attorney General Dappula de Livera gave an undertaking to court stating that the containers would be retained at the Port in a manner in which it does not affect the environment.
(Reporting by Damith Wickramasekara)
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