E-Waste and Environmental Sustainability inBangladesh: Building a Greener Future
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The challenge of managing e-waste in Bangladesh intensifies due to fast technological advancements and increasing electronic device consumption coupled with insufficient disposal systems. Because e-waste receives poor management it produces major environmental harm and wellness concerns mainly in informal recycling facilities. This paper explores Bangladesh's e-waste conditions by examining all e-waste origins and patterns while analyzing all produced waste types. E-waste produces adverse environmental effects and public health problems from its toxic materials combined with heavy metals and chemicals. The paper also evaluates Bangladesh's regulatory frameworks for waste management and discovers where implementation needs improvement. This paper introduces with the sustainable approaches for public-private partnerships as part of its recommendations. The suggested solutions include policy enhancement measures along with community participation programs and financing green technologies. The research depends on secondary data content analysis to deliver its findings
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