United Nations
Development Program and PRAN-RFL will work together to protect Saint Martin's
Island.

The two
organisations have jointly undertaken an initiative, titled "Saint
Martin's: Environmental Conservation and Sustainable Economy", in this
regard.

Mohammed
Solaiman Haider, director of the Department of Environment, inaugurated the
initiative in Saint Martin's Island yesterday.

Kamruzzaman
Kamal, marketing director at PRAN-RFL Group, said under this initiative,
volunteers of PRAN-RFL will collect waste from the island and bring it to
designated dumping stations where it will be compressed and brought to Teknaf
by sea. It will then be brought to the recycling plant at Habiganj Industrial
Park and Danga Industrial Park of PRAN-RFL and will be recycled.

Pure drinking
water will be provided for the people of the island through rainwater
harvesting and tree plantation programmes will be conducted in different parts
of the island, he also said.

Dr Ramiz Uddin,
head of experimentation at UNDP, said, "UNDP is always working to ensure a
sustainable environment. At first, UNDP collected plastic waste on the island,
but the work accelerated with the addition of the PRAN-RFL group."

Nurul Afser,
head of corporate brand of PRAN-RFL Group; Sumaiya Tabassum Ahmed, head of
sustainability; and Ahammad Ullah Kabir, data analytics officer of UNDP, were
among others, present.