Urban areas are a focal point of environmental problems. Their impacts extend over a wide range of spatial scales, i.e. the household, the place of work, the neighborhood, the city the wider region and ultimately the world. In the rapidly growing cities of the developing countries, urban solid waste management is currently regarded as one of the most immediate an serious problems faced by the city authorities. In the light of these challenges the project entitled "Integrated Management and Safe Disposal of Municipal Solid Waste in Least Developed Asian Countries" shortly termed as "WasteSafe" Read more >>
To address this most striking social and environmental issue Khulna University of Engineering & Technology (KUET) has taken several initiatives in the past since 2002. In this footstep, several seminar, workshops and stakeholders’ dialogue were organized at the Department of Civil Engineering, KUET, Khulna and other cities of the country and finally WasteSafe 2009, the 1st International Conference on Solid Waste Management was organized successfully in 9-10 Nov. 2009 at Khulna. It was jointly organized by Khulna University of Engineering & Technology, Bangladesh; Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany; Read more >>
