5 injured in three stabbing incidents in city
At least five people were stabbed in separate incidents crime, including mugging, in the capital on Tuesday morning...
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Indiscriminate dumping of medical waste must end
UNABATED medical waste dumping on roads, bins, drains, water bodies and open spaces in the capital and elsewhere has raised serious public health and environmental concern. The hazardous substances in medical waste include pathological and infectious materials, such as sharp needles and toxic chemicals. In hospitals, various therapeutic procedures, such as cobalt...
Medical waste poses serious health risks
Medical waste generated in healthcare facilities poses serious health risks as many hospitals keep discharging untreated waste water into open water bodies and dumping solid wastes in nearby dustbins...
Lack of civic facilities in new DNCC wards decried
Residents of 18 newly included wards in the Dhaka North City Corporation at a public hearing on Tuesday complained of grappling with water stagnation, poor waste disposal, and dilapidated roads, among other issues...
Matuail fire calls for modern waste management strategy
A DEPLORABLE failure of urban waste governance has left large parts of southern Dhaka cloaked in toxic smoke for more than two weeks, as a fire at the Matuail landfill continues to spread palls of toxic smoke across densely populated neighbourhoods such as Jurain, Jatrabari, Sayedabad and Maniknagar. The...
Gaps in water and sanitation policy should be addressed
A POLICY attention on ensuring access to basic sanitation facilities has left other relevant concerns such as faecal waste management and water and sanitation infrastructure maintenance unattended for decades. Experts, entrepreneurs, academics and development partners at a conference in Dhaka on February 25 called for addressing gaps in sanitation facilities. They have...
Narayanganj鈥檚 waste woes
The Narayanganj City Corporation, which governs Siddhirganj, sadar and Bandar, is responsible for nearly two million residents across 27 wards within a 72.43-square kilometre area. Managing civic services for such a large and densely populated city is a formidable challenge that requires strategic planning and efficient execution. While various developmental...
Little done, but a lot to shore up
THE government has renewed the ban on the use of polythene and polypropylene shopping bags in super stores beginning on October 1. After two decades, the law was revisited for a nationwide enforcement beginning on November 1. It was not the use but its indiscriminate disposal that prompted the ban on the production, sales and use of polythene...
323kg plastic wastes collected from beach
A total of 323 kilogrammes of plastic waste was collected from the Kuakata beach point in Patuakhali on Saturday.
Jhut sector must be formalised to prevent chaos: experts
Experts on Tuesday stressed the need for a textile waste (jhut) management policy in Bangladesh, saying that its informal nature of the sector fuelled political-economic tensions and...
Food waste intensifying inequality: experts
Experts at a seminar on Sunday said that food wastage intensified food insecurity and social inequalities, creating a significant divide between those who can afford to waste food and those who struggle with hunger...
National strategy to curb food losses could minimise import
THE losses incurred by a growing waste of food 鈥� before, during and after the harvest of agricultural produces 鈥� stand to threaten food security. A government study, Estimation of Overall Food Losses and Waste at all Levels of the Food Chain that the horticulture department of the Bangladesh Agricultural University conducted and made public in...
Landfills require high聽investment
RELIANCE on centralised waste collection and landfill disposal is financially burdensome and unsustainable. Landfills are rapidly losing capacity, leading to waste overflow along roads and...
PRAN-RFL, LafargeHolcim sign memo
PRAN-RFL group has signed a memorandum of understanding with LafargeHolcim Bangladesh Limited to foster a sustainable future through efficient and sustainable waste management of non-reusable materials, says a press release.
Walton鈥檚 鈥楥omputer Exchange Offer Season-4鈥� campaign begins
Walton has launched 鈥楥omputer Exchange Offer Season-4鈥� campaign aiming to ensure proper e-waste management...
Circular textiles lack policy, Bangladesh forgoes $5b in exports a year: study
The absence of a comprehensive policy framework for circular textiles, which would incentivise the recycling of post-industrial textile waste known as jhut, is causing Bangladesh to forgo $5 billion in potential annual export revenues from recycled textile products, according to a recent study...
Reducing waste flow to landfills
AS WE aim a smart Bangladesh by 2041, almost all urban centres, including Dhaka, grapple with significant challenges in solid waste management. Global warming, deforestation and unplanned urbanisation are exacerbating the issues, making urban living increasingly difficult...
Comprehensive approach for e-waste management must
A SURGE in electronic waste, or e-waste, generation and a lack of a formal mechanism for e-waste management are concerning. The Global E-Waste Monitor 2024, published by the International Telecommunication Union, a specialised agency of the United Nations, says that Bangladesh is one of the largest e-waste generators in South Asia and...
Bangladesh significant contributor to economic loss due to inadequate e-waste mgmt: ITU
The global loss due to inadequate e-waste management practices amounts to $37 billion annually, with Bangladesh being a significant contributor, according to a study conducted by the International Telecommunication Union...
Halving food waste can reduce hunger for 153m people: report
Halving food waste could cut climate-warming emissions and end undernourishment for 153 million people globally, the OECD and the UN鈥檚 food agency said...
Inadequate municipal waste collection
WASTE is material that has been consumed and the valuable or usable portion removed, making it no longer desired. Household waste is defined as solid waste...
DSCC opens control room for waste management
Dhaka South City Corporation established a central control room for removing sacrificial animals鈥� waste and coordinating management activities of cattle markets...
UBL campaigns on plastic waste management
The Unilever Bangladesh Limited, the country鈥檚 leading fast moving consumer goods company, in collaboration with Young Power in Social Action and Sunsilk, has taken a proactive stance in addressing the environmental crisis with the launch of the AwareWave campaign under its employee volunteering platform, Proyash...