Waste Management

Waste Management
Officials pose after signing the agreement at a hotel in Dhaka on Thursday.

LafargeHolcim, Swisscontact sign deal to support waste management in Kishoreganj

This initiative will create multiple impacts in improving working conditions within MSMEs, reducing environmental hazards and promoting cost effective and green production processes

In this file photo taken on 14 February, 2020, a worker carts a bin loaded with medical waste at the Youan Hospital in Beijing

China's mass testing is building a waste mountain

Hazmat-suited workers poke plastic swabs down millions of throats in China each day, leaving bins bursting with medical waste that has become the environmental and economic levy of a zero-Covid ...

Daraz, BD Recycle to work together for effective waste management

Daraz, BD Recycle to work together for effective waste management

Daraz Bangladesh has recently joined hands with BD Recycle Technologies Ltd (BRTL) to achieve sustainable development objectives and long-lasting economic growth, together

Garbage strewn all over the Saint Martin's island beach

Saint Martin’s island covered in garbage

Degradable and non-degradable waste is scattered all over the island

Hefty Energy Bags and other plastic waste is piled up at Renewlogy Technologies in Salt Lake City, Utah, US, on 18 May 2021

Scientists discover technique to turn plastic waste into CO2 sorbent

The lab has estimated the cost of carbon dioxide capture from a point source like post-combustion flue gas would be USD 21 a tonne

Photo shows an open waste filling station.

Dhaka North and South What is the future of the waste management master plan?

More than 7,500 tonnes of solid waste is produced daily in two Dhaka city corporations. And when considering the entire country, the amount of waste produced daily will be much higher

Logo of Dhaka South City Corporation

DSCC official fired over graft charges

An engineer of Dhaka South City Corporation has been fired from his job on allegation of corruption and financial irregularities

UN draft resolution shows countries aim to create chemical waste body

UN draft resolution shows countries aim to create chemical waste body

With climate change “the bigger impact is in the future. But the chemicals impact is the immediate future, it’s right now,” said Switzerland’s ambassador Franz Xaver Perrez

Afghan refugees collect waste at a dumping ground on 18 November 2021 in Istanbul.

Illegal but essential, migrants recycle Istanbul's waste

Shrouded by acrid smoke, a young Afghan crouches sorting waste he has pulled from the trash bins of Istanbul, anxious that Turkey will soon strip him of even this subsistence.

Deal singed to set up 42.5 MW waste-based power plant at Amin Bazar

Deal singed to set up 42.5 MW waste-based power plant at Amin Bazar

The government signed an agreement to set up a 42.5 MW waste-based power plant at Amin Bazar, as it is not harmful for environment

Fungistanbul band member Herman Artuc plays one of his instruments made with waste of cannister in Istanbul on 8 November, 2021

'Trash music': Turkish band recycles rubbish into sounds

Fungistanbul, a trio that began experimenting with a sound they call "Trash Oriental" in 2019, have joined a growing global movement of groups that bang, strum and blow into things they find in ...

A scavenger walks around burning waste at an outskirt of Dhaka

Two waste management projects caught in bureaucratic tangles

As city authorities are struggling to catch up with the growing waste management problem, the government is trying to handle it shifting its focus on waste-to-energy projects, but the projects taken ...

‘City residents need to be involved in sewerage management too’

Roundtable ‘City residents need to be involved in sewerage management too’

A roundtable on ‘Safe sanitation: Roadmap of Dhaka North City Corporation’, was organised by Dhaka City Corporation, UNICEF and Prothom Alo

Only half of around 1,700 tonnes of daily plastic waste recycled

Only half of around 1,700 tonnes of daily plastic waste recycled

Around 1,700 tonnes of plastic waste is produced in the country every day and only half of it is recycled, according to the environment department

Petri dish containing different steps and procedures by Nanyang Technology University (NTU) to turn durian husks into antimicrobial bandages

Scientists in Singapore transform fruit leftovers into antibacterial bandages

The process extracts cellulose powder from the fruit's husks after they are sliced and freeze-dried, then mixes it with glycerol. This mixture becomes soft hydrogel, which is then cut into bandage ...

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