The programme’s goal is to mobilise the broader Punjab community, including women, students and youth, to carry out environmentally friendly actions and to establish a stage for an emission trading system in Punjab.

A private company and the government have signed an agreement to recycle single-use plastic. In four major universities of Lahore, the private company with the help of Chinese technology will install machines that will be manufactured in Pakistan next month. These machines will also be installed in Lahore’s markets.

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The machine is easy to use and consists of two boxes. There are two buttons. Press button A to insert plastic bottles and press button B to enter your phone number. After doing so green credits will be displayed on the machine s screen and via mobile application. These credits can also be viewed.

There is a generation of 500 tonnes of plastic bottle daily waste. According to the private company s chairman, Gulfam Abid, these machines will make sure that plastic utensils and plastic bottles are utilised for making sidewalks, bricks and patchwork of roads.

He also underlined that citizens will be able to get approximately Rs 1,000 in cash by just inserting 40 half-litre bottles or 20 one-and-a-half-litre bottles into the machines.

The benefits of green credits do not end with citizens alone, as the 18,000 scrapyards of Lahore can take up this opportunity as well. He also added that scrapyards can reach the company through a mobile application and the company will personally collect the plastic bottles from them.