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Environmental pollution at a solid waste disposal site [1]

Dhaka city produces tonnes of solid wastes everyday. Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) does not have any sanitary landfill for ultimate disposal of solid waste and for a long time it is a common practice of DCC to dipose off solid waste in open low lying areas without any segregation andf soil cover.

Publication Date: 
01/04/2008
Rowshan Mamtaz [2], Md. Hasan Chowdhury [3]
Pollution Research [4]
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Tags:
Groundwater Pollution [5], Land Pollution [6], Heavy Metals [7], Urban Sanitation [8], Solid Waste [9], Waste Disposal [10], Sanitary Landfill [11], Dhaka [12]
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[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/solid-waste
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/waste-disposal
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/sanitary-landfill
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/dhaka