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Garbage CAN!- Exploring Possibilities For Sustainable Waste Management.

  • Pakistan Chowk Community Centre First Floor, Sultani Mahal Building, Kutchery Road Karachi Pakistan (map)

TALKING CIRCLE PRESENTS:
Garbage CAN!- Exploring Possibilities For Sustainable Waste Management.

Join Ahmed Shabbar, the CEO of GARBAGE CAN!, as he discusses and demonstrates waste management techniques. 

About the speaker:

Ahmed Shabbar is a physicist, and a mechanical and energy engineer. He got his first bachelors in physics from Reed College where he also worked at the Reed Research Reactor. His second bachelors in mechanical and energy engineering is from the University of North Texas. While at UNT, he was part of a team that worked with NASA and won top prize with them for proving a new novel method to remove CO2 from the airstream using cold temperatures of deep space. 
After returning to Pakistan, he now runs a small sustainable waste management organization called 'GarbageCAN' where the team focuses on cleaning, recycling, as well as research on waste to energy methods.

The discussion will be held at the centre, followed by a pot planting activity at the Pakistan Chowk.

Saturday, September 9, 2017.
Time: 3:30pm-5:30pm

This event is OPEN and FREE to all.