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HASAN, Samiul. Problems of municipal waste management in Bangladesh : An inquiry into its nature. in Habitat International, vol. 22, Issue 2, June 1998, p. 191-202      Waste management is the most important function and takes up the  major portion of resources of the two large city corporations in  Bangladesh: Dhaka and Chittagong. The major constituents of wastes are  organic and compostable materials. The residents are involved in many  reusing and recycling activities thus the overall disposable waste  contains only around 2% papers and metals. Still there are some major  waste management problems in these cities caused by some physical  planning issues, governmental systems and policies, and administrative  and managerial procedures. The major problem of waste management,  however, is the people's attitudes and behaviour.   Read the article ... 