Waste ConcernTeam8 邱奕翔 劉政諺

Background

Where

Bangladesh 1002 / km2

Taiwan 632 / km2

Dhaka almost 27777 /km2

3 million people live in slums

55 % peoplelive below poverty

line

5800 tons solid waste per day

Only 42%collected every day

Pilot the idea

•It was very difficult to get people interested in working with waste or even giving us the space to set up a processing site.

80 % peoplewere not satisfied

with DCC

77 % householdswilling to pay

Tk.15-60 per month

Good demand at Dhaka and adjoining

areas

84.6 % farmerwere not using

organic manure

Bangladesh is adeltaic country

刺蝟原則Waste has Value

50 % aboveis disposed unsound and unfriendly way

Large informal sectorexists in Dhaka

Decentralized Composting

4RReduction

ReuseRecyclingRecovery

•Labor intensive and less costly.

•Suite for waste stream, climate, social and economic.

•Collection of solid waste effectively.

•Reduce cost for the collection, transportation and disposal of waste.

•Enhance income and job opportunity.

Technology

•Less capital intensive

•Sited near urban residential areas

•Minimum nuisance from odors and flies

•Environmentally safe product

•Well suited to Dhaka’s waste stream, climate and socio-economic condition.

Indonesian Windrow

40 days decomposition 15 days maturing

500 kg of compostby

2 tons of solid waste

Market

Tk. 2.5 - 5Tk. 7 - 8

Finance

in FULL capacityTk. 1.77

Others being soldbetween Tk.10 - 15

Good bio-fertilizerJob opportunities

Clean environmentSave DCC money

Partnerships

Government landand infrastructure

Technical adviceTraining

Q & A

Reference• “Cash for Trash: Solving Dhaka’s Waste

Problems”, Ashoka.

• Iftekhar Enayetullah, Maqsood Sinha, “Community Based Decentralized Composting: Experience of Waste Concern in Dhaka”.

• Zurbrugg, C., etl, “Decentralized Composting in Dhaka, Bangladesh Production of Compost and Its Marketing”, ISWA2002 Annual Congress.

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