KARACHI, Jan 5: A private company will undertake a number of projects, to develop and improve solid waste management, in collaboration with the city government.

The City District Government Karachi held wide-range discussions with the representatives of the Pak-Kuwait Investment Company, a few days back, on different projects.

The projects include solid waste management, waste-to-energy projects, including those of seawater desalination plant and waste water recycling plant.

A CDGK official, talking to PPI, said that the PKIC would undertake a feasibility study to take over the Maripur Treatment Plant for recycling of waste water and its distribution to nearby industrial estate on commercial basis.

"PKIC has also offered to undertake a feasibility study for waste- to-energy and seawater desalination plants, which have already been started," the official said.

The PKIC would collaborate with the firms interested in the projects, which had already been initiated, and could offer financial support to the most suitable company, after evaluation, he said.

The PKIC would also initiate a feasibility study to revamp the existing solid waste management system of CDGK, and to privatize the system, as a whole or in phases, the official added. The company would also provide vehicles for lifting and disposal of solid waste, it was told.-PPI