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Evolution of Waste Concern

Waste Concern grew as a brainchild of Iftekhar Enayetullah and Maqsood Sinha. With formal educations in Waste management, urban planning and intense study on garbage sorting, coupled with a keen observation, the two realized that in better waste management, lay the solution to multiple problems in Bangladesh like:

• Stench of accumulating waste in Dhaka
• Lack of employment opportunities
• Viability of agricultural soil decreasing due to excessive use of chemical fertilizers
• Shortage of land to dispose waste

The evolution of Waste Concern can be split into 4 phases as:



1. Initial Lobbying with the Government (Early 1994)
At first, both Enayetullah and Sinha took up this project as a part time activity and their goal revolved around convincing the Dhaka City Corporation to promote garbage composting. This unsuccessful attempt did not discourage them and they kept lobbying for six months with the city government and the Local......

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