National 3R Strategy for Waste Management.

This National 3R Strategy for Waste Management is a multi-sectoral policy document. The goal for waste management is to achieve complete elimination of waste disposal on open dumps, rivers, flood plains by 2015 and promote recycling of waste through mandatory segregation of waste at source as well as create a market for recycled products and provide incentives for recycling of waste. The main objective of this 3R strategy is to delineate ways and means of achieving national 3R goals through providing a uniform guideline for all stakeholders. Specific objectives of this strategy are to: • address the key issues and challenges of waste management acting as a barrier for promotion of 3R in the country ; • define the roles of various actors to promote 3R in the country; and • guide the creation of enabling conditions for success regarding implementation of 3R in the country. Priority sectors are identified by the government: municipal solid waste, industrial waste, biomedical waste, institutional and commercial waste and agricultural waste.
The National 3R Strategy seeks to make agriculture more productive and sustainable. It recognizes waste as a resource and advocates for segregation of waste at source, encourages emission reducing technology, promotes polluters pay principle, gender sensitive approach as well as cleaner production and Environmental Management System (EMS), and supports the participation of the informal sectors who are engaged in the recycling of various materials. The Strategy indicates that good waste management in agriculture sector is essential to ensure a healthy, safe and productive activity. Poultry and livestock manure, agricultural residual materials (straw, rice husk, jute sticks, bagasse, twigs and leaves) in liquid or solid form generated from the production and marketing of crops, agricultural inputs (chemical fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides etc.) poultry, livestock, furbearing animals, are the some of the potential sources of agriculture waste. Farmers and manufacturers in Bangladesh should have obligations to ensure that their wastes do not impact on the environment. The government shall promote technologies such as efficient stoves to minimize the use of agricultural waste as domestic fuel source and encourage surplus biomass for production compost or energy. In addition, implementation of this Strategy will simultaneously help prevent disposal or waste in environmentally sensitive areas such as rivers, wetlands, and low-lying areas and reduce the impacts of climate change.