Plastic recycling from municipal solid waste in Jashore city of Bangladesh

Abstract

A sustainable and environmentally friendly for efficient recycling of solid waste is a global concerning issue now-a-days. Everyday a huge amount of municipal solid wastes is being produced, but only a small amount of them are being recycled. Among these municipal solid wastes, plastic is a crucial one. Due to the exposure of plastics, environment is being affected badly. Jashore is an important city in Bangladesh due to Benapole land port with India. An estimated 70 tons of solid wastes were being handled in Jashore municipal area among these, plastic solid wastes are about 10 tons. In Jashore municipality area there were almost 38 plastic recycling shops for recycling the collected plastic wastwse and most of them were located in the Dhaka road side, Rail station, Shankarpur, Bogchar etc. The total estimated amount of recyclable plastic wastes handled in Jashore was taken 1.98 tondd-1 which is almost 20% of total recyclable plastic waste generation. Most of these recycled plastic solid wastes were sent to Dhaka which is the capital city of Bangladesh, where further processing was being accomplished to manufacture different new products. Only a small amount of recycled plastic solid wastes was processed in local recycle factories to produce new products in Jashore. These recycling process playing an important role to the environment and the overall recycling process in Jashore municipal.