Dhaka 19 June 2021: Occupational health-safety is an emerging need for waste collectors. Addressing the need ESDO organized capacity building training for city waste workers to educate them on waste segregation and health-safety. Today, total 18 waste workers participated in the training at Lalmatia, Dhaka.
Environment and Social Development Organization (ESDO), organize this training workshop as part of series of capacity building under its project “Building Zero Waste Communities for a Pollution-Free Environment in Bangladesh”. The project focus on Building Zero Waste community model towards ending environmental health risks and community wellbeing as well as accelerates the circular economy in Bangladesh. https://zerowaste.esdo.org/
In the capacity building training, waste collectors were educated about different types of hazardous waste such as medical waste, e- waste and chemical waste etc. It was also showed through a flipchart that by not wearing safety materials during waste collection process, they can be infected from wastes. They were proposed to use four colors of bin (green, red, yellow, blue) to segregate different types of wastes. The waste workers agreed with the proposal and showed interest in segregating wastes in different bins. One of the waste workers Md. Aminul said, “If we work by wearing safety materials, we will be safe from infectious and chronic diseases.” Another waste collector Md. Holud stated that, “Segregated wastes in different waste bins will help us to collect waste without hassles. We are currently collecting wastes in one bin manually by using our hands which is injurious to health.”
The principal of Lalmatia Housing Society School and College along with ESDO team members were present in this training session. The whole session was conducted by Sarah Jabeen Kristy, Program Coordinator and Head of Policy Advocacy. At the beginning of the training session, various relevant posters and reading materials were provided to all participants and at the end, ESDO also provided health and safety equipment consisting of rubber gloves, gum boots, masks and hand sanitizer among every waste workers have joined this session.
Background
Zero Waste is a philosophy and a designed principle that goes beyond recycling to take a “whole system” approach to the flow of resources and waste through human society. It attempts to guide people to emulate sustainable natural cycles, where discarded materials become resources for others to use. Environment and Social Development Organization-ESDO launched a unique and innovative project titled “Building Zero Waste Communities for a Pollution-Free Environment in Bangladesh”.
For more information, please contact:
Sarah Jabeen
Program Coordinator and Head of Policy Advocacy
Environment and Social Development Organization (ESDO)
Email: info@esdo.org
Mobile: +8801762-053420
Website: www.zerowaste.esdo.org
