waste and garbage management

How can Bangladesh improve its waste management?

Bangladesh has been facing severe problems in waste management for decades.
27 December 2024, 03:00 AM

Save Sutia river from rampant pollution

Authorities must set up dumping ground in Trishal municipality
27 December 2023, 07:22 AM

How plastic waste can drive the economy forward

Only less than half of the plastic waste generated in Dhaka is recycled.
4 October 2023, 02:00 AM

How can we help beat the culture of littering? 

Littering is a persistent problem in Bangladesh, one that all too often gets ignored by individuals and the society at large.
10 July 2023, 10:26 AM

Cox’s Bazar: Buried in waste

Cox’s Bazar is already ecologically vulnerable, especially in the aftermath of the clearing of more than 8,000 acers of reserved forest land to accommodate and provide for the Rohingya refugees.
10 May 2023, 04:00 AM

Cox's Bazar's sewage problem

Why did the authorities allow hotels, resorts and hatcheries without STPs to operate in Cox's Bazar?
6 May 2023, 02:00 AM

How Dhaka can benefit from circular waste management

Adaptability and being aligned with the needs of the broader public can make the idea of circularity indefinitely relevant for Dhaka city.
30 July 2022, 13:45 PM

Carbon footprint and you: slowing climate change starts at home

One of the factors contributing increasingly to a rise in climate change is a high carbon footprint. A carbon footprint is the total amount of greenhouse emissions (such as carbon dioxide and methane gas) that are generated by our actions as we live our life.
4 October 2021, 09:09 AM

ATTENTION MAYORS: Top priority is to manage street garbage (video)

Garbage management to be on the top priority list on the recently-elected mayors of Dhaka north and south city corporations who have announced to make Dhaka a clean place in the next six months.
3 June 2015, 13:26 PM