17th January 2020
EP Report

The waste treatment plant at Jhumjhumpur in Sadar municipality area has become a role model in recycling wastes, turning them into biogas and fertilizer.

 

The operation of the waste management plant, located near Jashore-Narail road, has changed the outlook of the area.

 

Around 40 tonnes of garbage is recycled at the plant and five tonnes of fertilizer is produced every day. Besides, the plant is operated with the electricity it is producing.

 

Financed by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the plant was built in 2018 on a 39-acre plot at a cost of Tk 24 crore. It went into operation in August that year.

 

"This is the first plant in the country where daily waste is recycled into biogas and fertilizer," said an official at the Jashore municipality.

 

Forty-two workers work at the plant every day. Garbage is collected from Jashore district town, Uposahar union and several areas under cantonment. The wastes are brought to the plant in trucks. The decomposable and non-decomposable wastes are sorted out here. After recycling, the waste is dried up.


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