Municipal Waste Management of Kushtia Municipality: Challenges and Opportunities

Abstract

Municipal waste management is amongst of those most crucial issues of the world. Nowadays different international organizations i.e. WHO, ISWA etc. are working on introducing waste management system to ensure a better living atmosphere. The waste management system of Bangladesh is not up to the level. Recently, few municipalities have developed their municipal waste management system and Kushtia Municipality is one of them. The municipality owns composting plant where they compost municipal waste and sell into market as organic fertilizers. Though it is a revolutionary work and lot of opportunities are available in comparison with the current scenario of other municipalities in Bangladesh, there are some challenges faced by Kushtia municipal authority. This study aims also to identify the existing weakness and threats on the basis of SWOT analysis. And recommendations based on analysis of the existing scenario will go a long way to solve the problems faced by the authority. More importantly, to satisfy the increasing demand, a new landfill site and two transfer station are proposed. Also the shortest path is found by using GIS.