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Lean Green Teams helped the Postal Service reduce energy, water, solid waste to landfills and petroleum fuel use, saving the agency more than $5M in 2010.

Lean Green Teams helped the Postal Service reduce energy, water, solid waste to landfills and petroleum fuel use, saving the agency more than $5M in 2010.

09 October 2010 MUSCAT: Green buildings can reduce the consumption of electricity and water by 40 per cent, CO2 emissions by 33 per cent and solid waste by 70 per cent, said Mario Seneviratne, managing director of Green Technologies, at a workshop organised at the concluding day of the two-day Muscat Green Days conference on 'Education for a Sustainably Built Environment'.

Garbage collection should resume in the wake of Government paying some $70M towards its rates and taxes for this year. City Mayor, Hamilton Green, yesterday said that Government had sent a cheque amounting to $70 million, which will adequately cover the close to $60M debt the municipality has with solid waste contractors. The contractors, Cevon’s Waste Management and Puran Brothers Disposal Service, on Monday last decided to withdraw their garbage disposal service in the city, due to the munic