Amimul Ahsan, M. Alamgir, Moetaz Elsergany, Shahriar Shams et al.
This study represents a few basic steps of municipal solid waste management practiced in the six major cities of Bangladesh, namely, Dhaka, Chittagong, Khulna, Rajshahi, Barisal, and Sylhet. A six-month field study was conducted to identify the solid wastes management steps such as storage at source...
Rafiul Alam, Zia Ahmed, M. Farhad Howladar
This study was aimed to determine the heavy metal concentration in water, soil, and plant around an open landfill site in Mogla Bazar, Sylhet, Bangladesh. The concentration of different metals such as iron (Fe), zinc (Zn), copper (Cu), manganese (Mn), lead (Pb), and cadmium (Cd) were analyzed using ...
Shahjahan Bhuiyan
Sadia Afrin, Md. Khabir Uddin, Md. Mostafizur Rahman
Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FT-IR) analysis and Stereomicroscope. The range of physicochemical parameters were found in the soil samples as follows: moisture content; 15.84%-56.54%; soil pH; 5.76-6.02, electric conductivity; 0.1 μs/cm - 2.43 μs/cm, alkalinity; 6.7 ± 1.528-14.33 ± 0.577,...
Mahadi Hasan Masud, Wasim Akram, Asif Ahmed, Anan Ashrabi Ananno et al.
Nowadays, the electrical and electronic products are a crucial commodity for different purposes of daily life and they are multiplying five times faster than human like mobile phones, which has reached zero to 7.2 billion in only three decades. A 5-10% yearly increase in the amount of used electrica...
Kamrul Islam
M. A. Hannan, Molla Shahadat Hossain Lipu, Mahmuda Akhtar, Rawshan Ara Begum et al.
Solid waste collection (SWC) has been one of the growing challenges throughout the world due to the development of urbanization and uncontrolled growth of the population. It is a complex process that is expensive and requires the elaborate logistics management and in-depth mathematical computation. ...
Shovra Chandra Chakraborty, Md. Qamruzzaman, Md. Wahad Uz Zaman, Md Masruck Alam et al.
Shahriar Shams, J.N. Sahu, Syed Masiur Rahman, Amimul Ahsan
M.A. Sufian, B. K. Bala
This paper presents a system dynamics computer model to predict solid waste generation, collection capacity and electricity generation from solid waste and to assess the needs for waste management of the urban city of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Simulated results show that solid waste generation, collection ...
Rafia Afroz, Keisuke Hanaki, Kiyo Kurisu
We employed the contingent valuation method to estimate the willingness to pay of the respondents to improve the waste collection system in Dhaka city, Bangladesh. Our objective was to estimate how WTP differs between respondents who received or did not receive door to door waste collection. The met...
Anan Ashrabi Ananno, Mahadi Hasan Masud, Sami Ahbab Chowdhury, Peter Dabnichki et al.
Excessive food waste (1.3 billion tons pa) has exacerbated the world hunger crisis. This comprehensive review focuses on the food waste scenario, adverse effects, food waste management, existing waste management policies, and regulations in Bangladesh. Municipalities and urban centers generate 3.78 ...
Minhaz Uddin Sohag, Amit Kumer Podder
Proper waste management is one of the major problems for densely populated urban areas. It is getting difficult day by day to lead a healthy, sustainable living in urban areas because of environmental contamination. Due to the lack of proper waste management approach, problems like an overflow of wa...
Christian Zurbrügg, Silke Drescher, Isabelle Rytz, A.H.Md. Maqsood Sinha et al.
Imran Khan, Shahariar Chowdhury, Kuaanan Techato
Daily per capita waste generation will increase by 40% and 19%, for developing and developed countries by 2050, respectively. The World Bank estimates that total waste generation is going to triple in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and double in South Asia (SA) by 2050. This article conducts a rapid revie...