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VISITORS can smell this village long before they see it. More than 100 dump trucks piled high with garbage line the narrow road leading to Zhanglidong, waiting to empty their loads in a landfill as big as 20 football fields. In less than five years, the Zhengzhou Comprehensive Waste Treatment Landfill has overwhelmed this otherwise pristine village of about 1,000 people.

IMPROPER disposal of medical wastes is a matter of grave concern for human health and environment. Medical waste may carry germs of different deadly diseases. In developing countries, medical waste management has not received much attention. It is usually disposed off randomly. Improper medical waste management is alarming in Bangladesh and poses a serious threat to public health.

The United Nations has designated the first Monday of October every year as World Habitat Day to reflect on the state of towns and cities and the basic right of all to an adequate shelter and to remind the world of its collective responsibility towards human habitat

TWO months ago, a fleet of hydraulic trucks of a private company started collecting garbage from homes in many areas of Nagpur. The trucks transport the garbage directly to the landfill site managed by another private company. This privatization of garbage collection has alarmed some 5,000 ragpickers who earn their living by rummaging through the city