Waste management confce

8 November 2009, 17:00 PM

Staff Correspondent, Khulna

The two-day international conference on solid waste management will begin today at the auditorium of Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (Kuet). Khulna City Corporation (KCC) Mayor Talukder Abdul Khaleque will open the conference as chief guest. The conference has been organised by the department of civil engineering of Kuet in cooperation with KCC, Bauhaus University Weimer of Germany, Asian Institute of Technology of Thailand, Bauhaus International Research and Education Centre of Germany and Lubin University of Technology of Poland. The conference has been organised with an aim to exchange views and experiences at international level and to understand the solid waste management concept as a whole. Divided into 12 technical sessions, the conference will be attended by 160 participants from home and abroad.