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Understanding Urban Waste Management

The document discusses waste management and the negative impacts of landfills. It talks about the daily tonnage of waste in cities projected to nearly double by 2025. The document also discusses producing solid fuel, fertilizer, and other items from organic waste through reuse and recycling of inorganic waste.

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Understanding Urban Waste Management

The document discusses waste management and the negative impacts of landfills. It talks about the daily tonnage of waste in cities projected to nearly double by 2025. The document also discusses producing solid fuel, fertilizer, and other items from organic waste through reuse and recycling of inorganic waste.

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SCIENCE PROJECT

• Waste:
• Waste is unwanted or unusable material discarded
• after primary use, or is worthless, defective and of
• no use. A by-product by contrast is a joint product
• of relatively minor economic value.
• - 26,000 ton wastes in cities and towns daily
• - Projected to reach nearly double by 2025
• - About 5000 Tons dump everyday in Dhaka City
• - About 25% more waste generate every year
• Composition of waste:

• Municipal waste
• Industrial Waste
• Medical waste
• Waste Management:
• - Collection
• - Separation
• - Transportation
• - Disposal / Landfills
• - Reusing
• - Incineration
• - Energy generation
• Landfills
• Landfills are sites designated for dumping rubbish,
• garbage, or other sorts of solid wastes.

• Effects of Landfills:
• - Air pollution and atmospheric effects
• - Ground water pollution
• - Health effects
• - Soil and land pollution
• - Economic costs
• - Landfill fires
• Negative impacts
• - mosquitoes
• - diseases such as malaria
• - respiratory problems,
• - blockage in the drainage system
• - bad odour / Air pollution
• - Soil Pollution
• - Earth water Contamination
• Solid Fuel from Waste:
• Municipal waste
• Wood
• Husk
• Industrial Waste
• Charcoal
• Biomass

• 80 per cent are organic waste.‘All the wastes can be reused or recycled,’ he said, ‘bio-gas, solid fuel,
fertiliser and others can be produced from organic waste while inorganic waste can be reused after
recycling them.’
• Quoting a yearly waste report, Razzak said that the DNCC had collected 8.52 lakh tonne
solid wastes in 2016-17 fiscal, while the volume was 6.83 lakh tonne in 2015-16, indicating
an increasing of 24.77 per cent in 2016-17. He added that the DNCC spent Tk 800 for
managing each tonne waste. DSCC chief waste management officer Air Commodore
Shafiqul Alam said that the waste volume in DSCC area also

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