SWITCH-Asia Sustainable Consumption and Production for Food & Beverage Sector SMEs Sri Lanka Success Stories

17th March 2012, www.dailynews.lk,

SWITCH-Asia Food and Beverages Project of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce held a mini symposium on Sustainable Consumption and Production recently.

SWITCH-Asia Programme Project Director S.M. Sathiacama, speaking at the event said that the project which was commenced in 2009 helps Small and Medium Enterprises make their production process efficient by conserving energy and translate these savings to profits.

The implementing agency of the project highlighted the importance of food and beverage producers as well as all other manufacturers to be environmentally friendly and adopt practices that conserve energy and resources, CCC Solutions CEO Prema Cooray said.

The event was attended by a large number of the project's stakeholders in the Food and Beverages Industry ranging from plantations to dairy processing companies and representatives from the European Union, the project's funding agency and also personnel from the Ministries of Environment, Finance and Industry and Commerce.

Minister Counsellor, Head of Finance and Contracts of the European Union Wim Prud'homme highlighted the relationship between the European Union and Sri Lanka and its presence in the country for a long period of time and about its grants extended to Sri Lanka to rebuild after the conflict.

A number of stakeholders of the SWITCH-Asia Food and Beverages Project presented their successful case studies and shared their experiences and knowledge thus inspiring more and more organizations to learn and adopt their conservation success stories.

The entities that shared their success stories were: Convenience Food (Lanka) PLC, Dunagaha Coconut Producers Co-operatives Society, Foreconns Canneries Pvt Ltd, Glenugie Tea Processing Centre-Maskeliya Plantation PLC,

Laxapana Tea Processing Centre-Maskeliya Plantation PLC, Maxies and Company Pvt Ltd, Panilkanda Tea Factory-New Saman Group Pvt Ltd and Richlife Dairies Pvt Ltd. (SJ)

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Switch-Asia Greening Sri Lanka Hotels Project for better Management of Water, Waste & Energy

13th August 2010, www.dailynews.lk

The third seminar of the Switch-Asia Greening Sri Lanka Hotels Project, funded by the European Commission was held at Hotel Sigiriya recently.

Tourism Hotels Association of Sri Lanka (THASL) Regional President Marias Perera, made the welcome speech. At the seminar, CCC Project Director Srilal Miththapala, and his team of experts outlined the details of the project and the benefits which could be derived through energy, water and waste management practices.

The half-day seminar had an active participation of a wide range of hospitality establishments representing Small, Medium and key players in the industry.

The three introductory seminars conducted so far, in Negombo and Southern region and the most recent one at the Cultural Triangle had the presence of enthusiastic participants who were keen to enhance their environmental performance through improvement of energy, water and waste management systems and thereby reducing the cost of operations.

The Switch-Asia Team of experts of the project on Water Energy and Waste are now in the process of collecting baseline data from the hotels who have already registered with the project.

Individual guidance will also be provided to the smaller hotels to fill-up the questionnaire.

The team will then start working with the registered hotels in conducting audits and planning interventions to reduce their water, waste and energy usage.

As at present, a total of 94 hotels have participated at these awareness seminars and many of them have already signed-up with the project.

The next awareness seminar is scheduled to be held at the Light House Hotel, Galle on September 3, for the hoteliers in and around Deep South area.

The project is also working closely with reputed local banks and other agencies to work out some form of preferential financial assistance for those who have registered with the Switch-Asia Greening Sri Lanka Hotels Project, and develop a worthwhile energy conservative project for implementation.

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