Course on solid waste management to be introduced at AIOU
Islamabad: Dr Akhtar Hameed Khan Memorial Trust (AHKMT) has expressed its willingness to introduce a course on waste management in collaboration with the Department of Environmental Sciences at the Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU)’s Islamabad campus, says a press release. AHKMT CEO Sumaira Gul in her concluding remarks at the certificate distribution ceremony of a three-day training workshop on the subject held in Islamabad said that the trust has been working on solid waste and sanitation models not only in the downtrodden areas across the country. “This training workshop is an orientation session, after this, the students will be able to get training for six months at the Integrated Resource Recovery Centre (IRRC). AHKMT’s Integrated Resource Recovery Centers established across the country in Sakrand, Islamabad and Mardan manage the waste generated in these cities in a decentralized manner with a focus on source separation of waste through community participation,” she…