Dhaka city's waste management has not changed much since independence of Bangladesh. According to one study, “about 5,000 tonnes of waste is being generated in Dhaka city every day.” Only half ...

O n a mountain of putrid waste towering above the Dhaka skyline, destitute ragpickers are scavenging for plastic.. For these illegal recyclers, crowded around a mechanical digger as it disgorges ...

Secondly, individuals and different communities within Dhaka can be incentivised to be the building block of the circular flow of waste, based on how much they accumulate individual and community ...

Street cleaners in Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh, may have the worst job in the world as they clean rubbish out a canal in the region The volunteers swim neck deep in the mountain of urban waste that ...

Fast-growing Dhaka is struggling to deal with the mountains of trash generated by its 23 million inhabitants. But it has big plans to start turning its garbage into energy – and even dreams of ...

DHAKA — Muzammel Hoque, 40, lives in the village of Konda, near the largest landfill that services the city of Dhaka, some 30 kilometers (19 miles) away. “The landfill has destroyed the rich ...

Existing sewage treatment plants in Dhaka treat only 30% of all sewage waste. Emerging pollutants such as antibiotics, microplastics, detergents, toothpastes, shampoos and lotion are found in ...

The two Dhaka city corporations took on the challenge of removing the waste as quickly as possible. About 20,267 sanitation workers were deployed for the task, with their Eid holidays cancelled.

ABM Shamsul Alam, chief waste management officer of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC), told bdnews24.com at 10:30pm: “We have completed 100 percent waste removal in the DNCC area on Eid day.