‘Dhaka not a city of garbage anymore’

Dhaka South City Corporation mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh yesterday said  garbage management has significantly improved in the capital since he took over.

"Previously, 90 percent of garbage used to lie in open places, but we (DSCC) brought it down to 30 percent in the last two years," the DSCC mayor claimed while inaugurating a secondary transfer station in Khilgaon.

He said only 24 STS were constructed in the last 50 years, while they constructed 35 of those in the last two years. He said Dhaka is not a city of garbage now, thanks to DSCC.

Every day around 6,000 tonnes of garbage is generated in Dhaka, and 70 percent of it is collected by the city corporations. The rest is recycled and dumped randomly into canals, ditches or drains.

Presently, the city corporations collect household wastes and then store them in temporary containers, where there are no secondary transfer stations, before transporting them to the Aminbazar and Matuail landfills.