Assessment of environmental sustainability of solid waste management system of Dhaka city through life cycle analysis.

ABSTRACT: Dhaka, the highly populated capital of Bangladesh, generates a huge amount of solid waste that goes directly into the landfills posing a serious threat to public health, and land use. In this study, the current and some feasible alternative treatment strategies were assessed through life cycle analysis to find an answer for a sustainable waste management approach for Dhaka city. Four alternative waste management strategies: Landfilling + Composting (A1), Landfilling + Composting + Incineration (A2 & A3; variation in waste percentage), and Landfill + Incineration (A4) were structured to compare the environmental impacts with the baseline Landfilling scenario (B0). The Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) was constructed by blending the unit waste databases from ecoinvent 3.8, and field reports to pro

SUBMITTER: Joarder SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12541063 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature