e-guard (Company)
Solid waste collection and disposal system The Environmental Guard (e-guard), a profit-oriented business enterprise was formed on May 9, 2009 for providing household garbage collection service to the local communities. It provided solid waste management services to local communities at affordable rates. In 2012 UN-HABITAT joined the party, and in their collaboration the waste collection system was replicated in six major cities of Pakistan. However, in 2013 the issue of proper disposal of solid waste emerged as line companies and government functionaries started raising questions of huge dumps of garbage disposed at the limited landfills in the cities where e-guard was serving. AHKMT kept on striving to address the situation and found out a successful waste addressing model already practiced in Bangladesh. AHKMT reached a land allotment agreement with Jammu and Kashmir Housing Society G-15 in Islamabad in 2013 to replicate this successful South Asian model, Integrated Resource Recovery Centrein…