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Pollution Control
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Pollution Control
Waste to Energy
g BE Bangladesh Desk
Pitfalls of Landfills
Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) is exploring
prospects of generating renewable energy from
Municipal Solid Waste (MSW), according to a report
published by the Dhaka Tribune on September15th.
DNCC has long been using the Aminbazar landfill
for dumping waste. The lone landfill for DNCC,
Amin Bazar was originally intended to be a sanitary
landfill, built over 52 acres of land in 2007. DNCC
estimates that around 2,000 tonnes of municipal
solid waste are dumped every day from different
parts of north Dhaka. DNCC figures put its per capita
waste collection per day at 0.513 kg. DNCC does not
have an environmental clearance certificate from
the Department of Environment (DoE) for this
factually open dump.
Reportedly, DNCC saw 24.77% higher amount
of waste disposed at Amin Bazar landfill in 2017,
compared with the year before. The capacity of the
landfill was exhausted in 2017. However, DNCC
continues to dump thousands of tons of waste every
day and estimates that it will have to handle up
to six million tons of waste in the next five years.
Monthly business magazine
December, 2019