By A Correspondent- Vice-President Kembo Mohadi has called on Zimbabweans to promote sustainable waste management practices and initiatives in a bid to keep a clean environment.

Speaking at the National Environment Cleaning Day campaign at Glen View 1 Shopping Centre in Harare Friday, VP Mohadi said promoting sustainable waste management benefited the country economically as it will “create investment opportunities in waste management projects and green jobs.

He said:

“A clean environment also attracts tourists, resulting in job creation and foreign currency generation.

We need to conform to global trends of reducing plastic pollution by giving ourselves up to December 2020 to eliminate and phase out single-use plastics. To date, over 60 countries in the world have either banned or restricted single-use plastics and over 30 of these countries are in Africa.

Let it, therefore, be kept in mind that as a nation, we are committed to live in a clean environment.

May I remind the nation that the National Clean-Up Day should be part of our culture, hence I am calling all Zimbabweans to embrace it. We need to further train ourselves in good hygienic and environmentally positive habits. The clean-up should not be a one-day affair, but a culture for everyone.

Adoption of streets, or roads by corporates has become the most recent way of corporate social responsibility demonstrated by the private sector the world over. I appeal to the corporate world to step forward and adopt roads or portions and not only clean them up, but also green them up.”-StateMedia