BARISAL CITY AND WASTE MANAGEMENT

BARISAL CITY AND WASTE MANAGEMENT
Barisal city is the headquarter of Barisal division of Bangladesh, comprising the southern districts, lying west of the Kirtonkhola River. Due to rapid urbanization this city faces the environmental pollution like other growing cities of Bangladesh. The city corporation is the only authorized body responsible for the proper management of generated solid waste. As an effective management system, it is necessary to keep a safe and clean world for the next generation. So the continuous environmental degradation process must be stopped or at least minimized immediately. The goals of the study are to determine the characteristics of solid waste, to find the existing solid waste management scenario, to determine the environmental impacts, relative problems and some remedial measures and to ensure better management practices in order to reverse the process of environmental pollution. The waste generation rate in Barisal City Corporation area is 118 tons per day of which mostly are organic but the collection rate is about 50 tons per day, which is below from half of the generation rate. On the other hand, recycling practices of the respondents are satisfactory. Besides City Corporation Authority, only one NGO Prodipon, work for the solid waste management and they work only for clinical waste. Gas emission from the landfill site is estimated from US EPA LANDGEM model and the emission rate will be peak in the year 2016. In the city the authority collect the solid waste by applying house-to-house collection system. There is a lack of cooperation between NGO and City Corporation. The City Corporation has no burning unit, Prodipon has a burning unit that burns only clinical waste but it does not work properly. Due to lack of good intention of the authority and the lack of technical knowledge, financial constraints and other inherent limitations, the overall solid waste management scenario is not good.