This waste can be recycled, used to produce liquefied
petroleum products, or electricity. There are advanced waste-to-energy conversion
technologies that are commercially viable and sustainable. Presently Fauji
Cement Company is using municipal solid waste to produce electricity.
Garbage is not only a cheap source of producing electricity
but it can also be used to produce fertilizers. It is profitably being
converted to fertilizer by an entrepreneur from Lahore .
Asif Farooqi is a green entrepreneur. He is CEO of waste
buster, a waste management company. He is the pioneer of the waste management
business in Pakistan .
Some years earlier he started with 6 donkey carts that
collected waste from house to house. Now his business waste buster has 200
garbage collection vehicle and employees 3000 people. His business is not only
about making money but also conserving environment as well.
Mr. Farooqi informed in a report of al Jazeera that what
started from six donkey carts has become a business employing three thousand
people and all this money is generated from waste. His men collect garbage and
other waste from narrow streets of Lahore
and deliver to factory through garbage collection vehicles. His waste
management plants separate garbage into organic, plastic and metals to produce
liquefied petroleum products, and fertilizers for farmlands.
Asif Farooqi holds masters degree in environmental
engineering from northwestern university, USA
with specialization in waste management. He has more than 20 years of
experience in the field of environmental engineering. His company waste buster is
based in Lahore . Many contracts
have been won by the waste busters in Karachi
and other cities of Pakistan .
