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Incentivising source-sorting of domestic waste: An experiment with Cox's Bazar municipality

Project Active from to Cities and Waste

This study evaluates innovative approaches to maximise the economic value of domestic waste in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, assessing the cost of providing incentives for sorting domestic waste in relation to the rate of waste processing and the economic returns from processing larger shares of sorted waste.

Researchers

Munshi Sulaiman

Director of Research, BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD)

Proloy Barua

Research Fellow, BRAC University

Fazlur Rashid

Chief Operating Officer, Dyadic Research Impacts

Project outputs

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Incentivizing source-sorting of domestic waste: An experiment with Cox's Bazar Municipality

Proloy Barua, Prataoy Kabya Bhowmik, Khadija Akter Sonia, Fazlur Rashid, Munshi Sulaiman, Mashiyat Faiza Jahan
Working paper
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Waste-to-wealth: Impact of source-sorting of household waste in Cox's Bazar municipality

Proloy Barua, Prataoy Kabya Bhowmik, Khadija Akter Sonia, Fazlur Rashid, Munshi Sulaiman
Policy brief
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Waste-to-wealth: Impact of source-sorting of household waste in Cox's Bazar municipality

Proloy Barua
Policy brief

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