Int'l meet on solid waste management opens in Khulna
The three-day second international conference on 'Solid Waste Management in Developing Countries' began at Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (Kuet) yesterday.
KCC Mayor Talukder Abdul Khaleque inaugurated the conference at Civil Engineering Building at 3:00pm with Kuet Vice-Chancellor Prof Muhammed Alamgir Muhammed Alamgir in the chair.
Prof Md Saifuddin Shah, vice chancellor of Khulna University (KU),
Prof E Kraft of Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany, and Prof Raffaello Cossu of Padova Univerisity of Italy addressed the inaugural session.
Prof Alamgir presented a key-note paper on organic waste management in the developing countries.
Khulna City generates over 450 tonnes of solid waste everyday and 40 percent of which go straight to drains and are dumped on roadside and in water bodies, polluting environment.
Only 250 to 270 tonnes of solid waste are collected everyday and dumped on landfills in Rajbandh area under Batiaghata upazila of Khulna district, said Md Anisur Rahman, conservancy officer of Khulna City Corporation.
KCC has 10 trucks and 26 demountable container trucks to carry garbage. Besides, it has 260 rickshaw vans to collect wastes from houses. Some non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are also engaged to remove garbage.
The city corporation needs more logistic supports to improve the situation, said panel mayor-1Ajmal Ahmed Tapon.
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