DSCC and Bidyanondo launch ‘Food for Waste’ initiative
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- Dhaka South City Corporation and Bidyanondo Foundation have launched a programme that lets residents exchange waste for food and household essentials.
- The initiative aims to improve waste management, encourage public participation and support marginalised people.
- Exchange rates include a meal for 500 grams to 1 kilogram of waste and cooking oil for 5 kilograms.
Residents of Dhaka’s Hazaribagh area can now exchange collected waste, including plastic, for food and household essentials under a new “Food for Waste” programme.
Dhaka South City Corporation and Bidyanondo Foundation jointly launched the initiative. DSCC Administrator Md Abdus Salam inaugurated it at an event in Hazaribagh, where residents brought waste to temporary stalls and exchanged it for rice, lentils, cooking oil, salt, potatoes and tissue.
The programme aims to involve citizens in keeping the city clean, improve waste management and support the livelihoods of marginalised people. A person can receive a rice-and-curry meal for 500 grams to 1 kilogram of waste. One kilogram can also be exchanged for rice or salt, while half a dozen eggs require 1 kilogram.
The exchange rate rises for other items: 3 kilograms of waste buys lentils or sugar, 5 kilograms buys 1 litre of soybean oil, and 4 kilograms buys 2 kilograms of flour.
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