A study titled “Current challenges and future perspectives of solar-PV cell waste in Bangladesh,” published in Heliyon (an all-science, open access journal) in 2022 estimated that solar PV waste in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.