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• Dr. Sujata Gamage(LIRNEasia) 
• Mr. Chanuka Wattegama(LIRNEasia) 
• Ms. Samangi Hewage (LIRNEasia) 
• Ms. Nirosha Nissanka (Burns Environmental Services) 
• Mr. Dulip Tilakaratne (Dialog Telecom) 
• Mr. Charith Jayasundara (Dialog Telecom) 
• A.S. Iliyas (Plastic tex (Pvt) Limited).

The current situation of E-waste is discussed at the discussion session of the seminar. 3R Initiative is working with Dialog and Girl guides Association of Sri Lanka to collect waste mobile phones from the Gampaha Municipal Council area. According to Dulip and Charith ultimate goal of Diaolog Telecom is to collect 1 million mobile phones and mobile phone batteries in next two years.

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At Mahamaya Balika Vidyalaya Nugegoda, left-over food from the lunch boxes and the school canteen and waste from the garden are converted to fine quality compost by the efforts of the students and the teachers .Compost is then taken from the heap and sieved to separate debris and un-decomposed materials. The finer composts is used to grow agricultural crops in the school. All these activities are carried out by the students during their free periods.

DUBLIN — There is something missing from this otherwise typical bustling cityscape. There are taxis and buses. There are hip bars and pollution. Every other person is talking into a cellphone. But there are no plastic shopping bags, the ubiquitous symbol of urban life.

In 2002, Ireland passed a tax on plastic bags; customers who want them must now pay 33 cents per bag at the register. There was an advertising awareness campaign. And then something happened that was bigger than the sum of these parts.

Within weeks, plastic bag use dropped 94 percent. Within a year, nearly everyone had bought reusable cloth bags, keeping them in offices and in the backs of cars. Plastic bags were not outlawed, but carrying them became socially unacceptable — on a par with wearing a fur coat or not cleaning up after one’s dog.

Networking among collectors and recyclers of plastic and polythene waste under the National Post Consumer Plastic Waste Management Project is progressing well. Nearly 70 recyclers and collectors have registered by January 1 under the project.

Programme Assistant I. Razeen said the project is implemented in Colombo and Gampaha districts within the first year of the project period under the supervision of the Central Environmental Authority.

Global warming is taking place in your backyard:

In simple layman terms, global warming is the dangerous rising of the Earth's global temperature, causing severe change and disastrous weather patterns. The sun's heat increases and the earth's temperature rises. Retained gasses called Greenhouse Gases comprise of Carbon Dioxide, Methane and moisture in the Earth's atmosphere.

"We have not inherited Mother Earth from our parents but we have stolen it from our children" goes a saying accompanied with a poignant painting of a baby crying in the midst of tree stumps and bare land.

This tragic reality gripped me as I saw it prominently hanging at the waiting room while I was waiting to see a doctor. This rings true today at a time when a lot of publicity is given to Global Warming also known as Climate Change.

In simple layman terms, global warming is the dangerous rising of the Earth's global temperature, causing severe change and disastrous weather patterns. The sun's heat increases and the earth's temperature rises. Retained gasses called Greenhouse Gases comprise of Carbon Dioxide (CO2), Methane and moisture in the Earth's atmosphere.