THIS is apropos Muhammad Ashtar’s letter ‘Solid waste’ (May 22). But, as usual, like all other problems brushed under the carpet, this one will also meet the same fate. We can earn millions of rupees for Pakistan by recycled material.

Let me tell the writer we will never be able to do what the Japanese are doing. So we will continue to be covered with garbage, inhaling poisonous gasses from the polluted environment.

S. Babar

Karachi

Published in Dawn, May 24th, 2015

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