garbage

Waste pickers Salmaa and Usmaan Shekh, right, search for recyclable materials during a heat wave at a garbage dump on the outskirts of Jammu, India, Wednesday, June 19, 2024. Shekh and his family are among millions of people who scratch out a living searching through India's waste — and climate change is making a hazardous job more dangerous than ever. Photo: AP/UNB
South Asia

For India's garbage pickers, a miserable and dangerous job made worse by extreme heat

Dhaka North Mayor Md Atiqul Islam inaugurated the installation programme today (3 June). Photo: Courtesy
Environment

100 'smart dustbins' to be installed in Gulshan; will sound alarm if anyone tries to steal it 

CDDL Managing Director Commodore Mohammad Benazir Mahmood handed over the garbage containers to Mayor M Rezaul Karim Chowdhury on Tuesday (21 May). Photo: TBS
Bangladesh

Ctg city corporation introduces 40 new garbage containers for waste management

Traffic can hardly go by as household garbage blocks at least one-third of a road in the capital’s Sadarghat area. The city generates at least 6,800 tonnes of waste daily. The photo was taken recently. Photo: Rajib Dhar
Bangladesh

Garbage woes continue to haunt Dhakaites

Beneath the arched culvert is a shallow furrow – now dry but once it was the riverbed of the mighty Karatoa. Photo: TBS
Bangladesh

Karatoa: How a river is killed

An open garbage container was placed on the road in front of the Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Shishu Shikkha Government Primary School in the capital. The photo was taken recently. Photo: Md Jahidul Islam
Bangladesh

Students suffer as garbage container placed near school

Cleaners of Dhaka South dump wastes on a road under the Sadarghat footbridge, one of the busiest intersections in the capital, causing extreme suffering to the city dwellers. The photo was taken recently. PHOTO: Rajib Dhar
Bangladesh

Wastes dumped at Sadarghat crossing cause severe suffering

A woman covers her face as she walks past a pile of garbage dumped along the street in New Road, a financial hub and one of the busiest streets of Nepal, as locals from a village near the dumping site protest against garbage being dumped in their area by obstructing garbage trucks from reaching the dumping site, in Kathmandu, Nepal June 8, 2022. Picture taken June 8, 2022. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar
South Asia

In Nepal's capital, piles of garbage put off tourists and residents

Random dumping of garbage below the Mouchak-Moghbazar flyover on DIT Road causes a continuous stink and makes the surrounding areas polluted and unhealthy. The problem has been prevailing for almost five years, but the city corporation is yet to come up with a solution. Photo: Mumit M
Bangladesh

Authorities turn blind eye to stinking Malibagh open air garbage

A lane on a road in Agargaon area remains almost blocked due to the dumped waste, waste-laden vans and trucks there, which often cause traffic congestion. People were seen in a state of exasperation by the bad smell of the garbage while passing through the area. Photo: Md Jahidul Islam
Bangladesh

When garbage stands in way of Liberation War Museum

A long queue of garbage collection vans is parked on the road in front of the secondary waste transfer station in the capital’s Kalabagan, creating a nightmare every evening for pedestrians. Photo: TBS
Bangladesh

Long queue of garbage vans causes misery for Kalabagan pedestrians

A stinking open garbage bin in the Gazipur City Corporation area causes problems to commuters. Lack of proper measures, including designated spots, manpower and equipment for dumping garbage, has made the city corporation area an open trash bin. Photo: TBS
Bangladesh

Gazipur city: Where waste is everywhere

The photo shows plastic waste materials lying on a road inside the Dhaka University campus while a garbage van is parked nearby. The photo was taken near the Shamsunnahar Hall recently. Photo: Salahuddin Ahmed
Bangladesh

Open sky garbage dump pollutes DU