Urban per capita plastic use 9kg, 24kg in Dhaka

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Use of plastic in Bangladesh’s urban areas is increasing rapidly due to single use of polythene shopping bags and other plastic materials and their huge availability in the markets.
The annual per capita plastic consumption in Bangladesh’s urban areas tripled to nine kg in 2020 from three kg in 2005, according to a World Bank study released in Dhaka on Monday.
People living in Dhaka used per capita 24 kg products made of plastics – much higher than residents in other urban areas of the country in the same year.
Single-use thin shopping bags accounted for most of the plastic waste, according to the WB analysis based on data collected between November 2019 and November 2020 on the waste composition at landfills in Dhaka North City Corporation and Dhaka South City Corporation.
Wraps used for packing flour, pulse, grain and rice packs were the second most used and multilayer plastic, which includes all kinds of food and non-food packaging materials, were the third most used plastic items found in the landfills in DNCC and DSCC areas.
About 10 lakh tonnes of plastic waste, which is 70 per cent of the plastic waste generated in a year, ‘is mismanaged’, while only 30 per cent is collected for recycling.
With daily per capita 0.61 kilograms waste generation in both Dhaka North and Dhaka South city corporations, the Dhaka dwellers generated 6,464 tonnes of waste per day during the survey period.
Ten per cent of the waste collected in Dhaka is plastic waste, of which 48 per cent goes to landfills, 37 per cent is recycled, 12 per cent ends up in canals and rivers, and three per cent is dumped in drains and unserved areas of the municipalities.
An estimated 23,000 to 36,000 tonnes of plastic waste are disposed of per year in 1,212 hotspots around canals and rivers in and around Dhaka – Buriganga, Turag, Balu and Shitalakhsya.