waste management Archives

October 2, 2018

Published by Mahira Khan at Oct 02 2018

For waste-wise, sustainable cities

Dhaka Match Colony is a slum in the peripheries of South Dhaka. In many ways, it is the quintessential urban slum - inadequate housing, cramped alleys and piles of solid waste clogging its waterways. The slum, however, has recently been transforming itself.

November 18, 2016

Published by Nameerah Khan at Nov 18 2016

World Toilet Day: Celebrating achievements and preparing for the journey ahead

Last year WHO and UNICEF’s Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation reported that Bangladesh had made significant progress in reducing the proportion of people practising open defecation –to just 1 per cent, down from 34 per cent in 1990.

December 8, 2013

Published by Peter McIntyre at Dec 08 2013

The business of turning faecal waste into energy

The BRAC Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) programme in Bangladesh is planning to convert faecal matter from pit latrines into commercially viable fertiliser, biogas and electricity. The aim is to complete the sanitation chain by making material from millions of pit latrines safe and economically productive. Babar Kabir, senior director of the BRAC WASH programme, says that there is a sound business case for investment in bio-energy units that could generate electricity on a large scale.