(MENAFN- The Peninsula) Sanaullah Ataullah | The Peninsula
Kahramaa Awareness Park (KAP) received more than 11,000 visitors during past five months, said Fatima Al Mesnad, Head of Community Awareness and Development Department at Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation, (Kahramaa).
KPA is an ambitious initiative of Kahramaa to promote the culture of conservation of electricity and water among community especially the children.
Al Mesnad was speaking on the sideline of an event organised by Kahramaa's National Program for Conservation and Energy Efficiency 'Tarsheed in collaboration with Q-Post yesterday at KPA to mark World Post Day that falls on October 9.
This is the anniversary of the establishment of the Universal Postal Union in 1874 in the Swiss Capital, Bern.
It was declared World Post Day by the UPU Congress held in Tokyo, Japan in 1969.
A display of the World Post Day at Kahramaa Awareness Park yesterday. Pic: Baher Amin / The Peninsula
The event aims at educating school students and employees of Q-Post about reducing wastage of paper to protect the environment and preserve the natural resources and trees.
Q-Post also held an exhibition at the event to showcase the postage stamps carrying pictures of wildlife of Qatar.
'The KAP that opened by the end of April was visited by a total of 11,390 school students, participants of summer camps and employees from public and private sectors, said Al Mesnad.
Al Mesdan said: 'Today we invited an institution, Q-Post that is adhering to the sustainable development and working on to preserve the resources.
Hessa Al Marisi, Head of Leadership Development at Qatar Post, explained the efforts of Q-Post for protecting natural resources and environment in a presentation at the event.
'Q-Post has issued various types of postage stamps carrying pictures of birds, animals and trees to support protection of environment and wildlife of Qatar, said Hessa.
Hessa said that Q-Post has signed a contract with a local company for recycling papers and installed central printer that helped reduce paper consumption about 40 percent.
The management of Q-Post also became paperless after switching Human Resources Department to online system and Q-Post is using PDA system in place of paper work required for delivery, said Hessa.
Dr Mohammed Al Muhannadi, Environment Specialist in Health, Safety and Environment Department at Kahramaa delivered a lecture on 'Paper Use and Environment.
Al Muhannadi discussed in details about the harms of paper waste on economy and environment and gave many tips to save it. 'Paper production involves mechanical and chemical pulping to convert raw materials into various paper products, said Al Muhannadi. 'These processes consume large amounts of energy and use valuable natural resources including trees and water.
He said that trees are the main resource in the paper production. A tonnne of paper consumes approximately 20-full grown trees. To make just one tonne of paper out of the virgin materials, over 90,000 litres of precious water are used.
'When paper goes to landfill it produces dangerous greenhouse gases during decomposition. Production of paper emits 1.46 tonnes of greenhouse gases per tonne, said Al Muhannadi.
He said the average office work bins around 50kg of high-grade paper a year, a staggering 10,000 sheets of A4 size.
'Each tonne of paper that is recycled saves almost 13 trees, 2.5 barrels of oil, 1400 KW of electricity, 4 cubic meters of landfill and 31,780 liters of water, he added.
Giving tips, Al Muhannadi said people should send emails instead of distributing printed documents, minimize printing and use double sided copying where ever possible. Avoid buying goods which use excessive packaging.
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