KARACHI: The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation chief on Tuesday said the city generated around 15,000 tonnes of garbage a day but owing to insufficient resources all of it could not be disposed of at the landfill sites.

Talking to a four-member delegation of American Princeton Environmental Group Inc at his office, KMC chief Rauf Farooqui said that the remaining garbage and solid waste was dumped in the open and storm drains or was just left in streets though it did give an ugly look to the entire city.

He said that district municipal corporations were responsible for the disposal of garbage in the city.

However, he added, the KMC would support and cooperate with every measure that was aimed at keeping the city clean. He said that cleaning the city without the cooperation and coordination of the private sector was a big challenge. He said that Karachi with its 25 million population was the sixth most populous city in the world and offered huge market for investments.

Published in Dawn, July 9th, 2014