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.