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Neptune Papers an award-winning, innovative company with more than a decade of time-proven success in the industry, unveiled its new identity as Neptune Recyclers, on 10 October. Founder, National Program on Recycling of Solid Waste Dr. Ajantha Perera was the Chief Guest at the event, which also marked the opening of the brand new Neptune Recycling Centre in Wellampitiya, and the launch of their interactive new website -www.recyclesrilanka.com.
Neptune are pioneers in the recycling and waste management sector and widely recognized as an industry leader in Sri Lanka. The re-branding heralds Neptune’s move into providing a total recycling solution to customers by recycling all types of solid waste items including plastic, polythene and scrap metal in addition to paper. Speaking at the event, Dr. Ajantha praised the groundbreaking initiative of Neptune Recyclers in committing to protect the environment by recycling solid waste. She said, “The real love you show people is by helping them live longer. Recycling protects the environment and enables people to live longer”. Dr Ajantha also hailed Team Neptune as visionary, and thanked them for taking up the challenge to recycle as much as possible.
Market leaders for exporting of waste paper for the last several years, NeptuneRecyclers exported a staggering 15,000metric tons of waste paper in 2010. The launch of Neptune Green Home, a unique service to promote the Three R concept of Reuse-Reduce-Recycle to houses in Sri Lanka,has helped residents to recycle their day to day solid waste items at the comfort of their homes. The initiative also helps local government authorities, by minimizing the number of solid waste items collected from houses to be dumped in landfills and by also preventing the spread of deadly diseases like dengue, Malaria in houses. Group CEO of Expolanka Hanif Yusoof stated at the event, “As a group we believe that every business initiative we take must be beneficial to the community. There has been an amazing turnaround in this company in the last two years with the company becoming one of the biggest recycling service providers. This new recycling center will enable them to provide an even better service.” Ground level research and studies have been completed to venture into e-waste recycling and Neptune hopes to work closely with the relevant authorities to create awareness in the public about the health hazards and other environmental implications of Electronic Waste and the importance of properly recycling it.
