Environmental and Sustainable Solid Waste Recycling Management in Dhaka City of Bangladesh

International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation (IJRSI) | Volume VI, Issue XI, November 2019 | ISSN 2321–2705

Environmental and Sustainable Solid Waste Recycling Management in Dhaka City of Bangladesh

Dr. S. M. Abul Kalam Azad^*1, Dr. Md. Ahsan Ullah²

Joint Secretary¹, Former Consultant²
Ministry of Defence¹, Department of Agriculture Extension²
Govt. of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh

Abstract– Solid waste management is considered as one of the most immediate and serious environmental problems confronting municipal authorities in developing Asian Countries. Bangladesh is a third world developing country, its industries are flourishing over time and due to this rapid industrialization, urban areas are facing great pressure of huge population who has migrated for better civic amenities, job opportunities and improved quality of life. In order to manage these urban cities, concerned authorities are exploring new ideas and trying firmly to minimize human hazards and ensure a better, safer and cleaner and healthier city for living and enjoying their stay over multifarious business.
Although Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) acknowledges the importance of adequate solid waste collection and disposal as well as resource recovery and recycling, it is mostly beyond their resource to deal effectively with the growing amount of solid waste generated by the expanding cities. Consequently solid waste is indiscriminate by dumped on roads and into open drains thus leading to serious health risk and degradation of living environment for millions of urban people. In the last decade, however, importance of community involvement in solid waste management and use of adapted technologies were recognized for improving the solid waste management system.
However, waste management has turned to be one of the major concerns for the authorities. It is also an important facet of environmental hygiene and it needs to be integrated with total environmental planning and management. A solid waste management system is the framework by which the entire activities concerning solid waste come to pass. The ever increasing global concern on environmental health demands that wastes should be properly managed and disposed of in the most friendly and acceptable way. This is to minimize, and where possible, eliminate its potential harm to humans, plants, animals and natural resources.

Keywords— Waste Management, Waste Generation, Recycling, Environment;

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