Staff Reporter :
Green activists at discussion on Saturday demanded for assuring eco-friendly slaughtering and waste management in the country to prevent environmental degradation and convert animal leftover into resources.
In this context, they suggested to follow the Makkah model for halal slaughtering and manage slaughtering waste centrally to ensure environmental safety.
The demands came from a roundtable discussion organised by Poribesh Bachao Andolan (POBA) at its head office in the city.
POBA Chairman Abu Naser Khan presided over the programme while its General Secretary Engineer Abdus Sobhan presented the key note paper.
POBA Joint General Secretary Dr Lelin Chowdhury, Modern Club President Abul Hasnat, Subondhon Somaj Kollan Society President Habibur Rahman and other POBA members, among others, took part in the discussion.
Pointing out the features of the Makkah city’s slaughtering management during the holy Eid-ul-Azha, Abu Naser Khan said the Makkah city authority organise slaughtering of cattle centrally and systematically.
As a result of planned waste management, odor, diseases cannot spread out and environmental safety can be assured, he said.
“Our country lags behind in managing cattle waste after slaughtering, especially in the villages where 50 per cent of sacrificial slaughtering takes place. However, the city corporations try to take prompt steps to clean the cities, especially immediately after the Eid-ul-Azha,” Naser Khan mentioned.
He said, “Planned and organised slaughtering during the Eid-ul-Azha will not only ensure environmental safety but also promote hygiene of the sacrificial products like flesh, bones and raw hides.”
Abdus Sobhan stressed the need for waste management after the holy Eid-ul-Azha in the makeshift cattle hats of the country and turn those into resources.
“If those cattle waste converted into compost, the volume will be four lakh fifteen thousand tonnes equivalent to Tk 2,075 crore,” he said.
Sobhan added, “Though the two Dhaka City Corporations have selected specific points of slaughtering recently, many people do not follow and slaughter cattle randomly, endangering the environment with abundant blood flow and cattle waste.”
“In the villages the situation becomes awful and diseases spread due to improper waste management in the post Eid scenario which needs to be addressed,” he warned.
The green activists also suggested for developing trained human resources in the cities and in different parts of the country, who can slaughter the sacrificial animals following religious moral and conserve hide, horn and other body parts of the cattle for turning those into resources as those are valuable exportable items.
Develop specific slaughtering centres where people can slaughter safely by paying adequate fees and waste would be treated centrally without harming the environment, the added.
Green activists at discussion on Saturday demanded for assuring eco-friendly slaughtering and waste management in the country to prevent environmental degradation and convert animal leftover into resources.
In this context, they suggested to follow the Makkah model for halal slaughtering and manage slaughtering waste centrally to ensure environmental safety.
The demands came from a roundtable discussion organised by Poribesh Bachao Andolan (POBA) at its head office in the city.
POBA Chairman Abu Naser Khan presided over the programme while its General Secretary Engineer Abdus Sobhan presented the key note paper.
POBA Joint General Secretary Dr Lelin Chowdhury, Modern Club President Abul Hasnat, Subondhon Somaj Kollan Society President Habibur Rahman and other POBA members, among others, took part in the discussion.
Pointing out the features of the Makkah city’s slaughtering management during the holy Eid-ul-Azha, Abu Naser Khan said the Makkah city authority organise slaughtering of cattle centrally and systematically.
As a result of planned waste management, odor, diseases cannot spread out and environmental safety can be assured, he said.
“Our country lags behind in managing cattle waste after slaughtering, especially in the villages where 50 per cent of sacrificial slaughtering takes place. However, the city corporations try to take prompt steps to clean the cities, especially immediately after the Eid-ul-Azha,” Naser Khan mentioned.
He said, “Planned and organised slaughtering during the Eid-ul-Azha will not only ensure environmental safety but also promote hygiene of the sacrificial products like flesh, bones and raw hides.”
Abdus Sobhan stressed the need for waste management after the holy Eid-ul-Azha in the makeshift cattle hats of the country and turn those into resources.
“If those cattle waste converted into compost, the volume will be four lakh fifteen thousand tonnes equivalent to Tk 2,075 crore,” he said.
Sobhan added, “Though the two Dhaka City Corporations have selected specific points of slaughtering recently, many people do not follow and slaughter cattle randomly, endangering the environment with abundant blood flow and cattle waste.”
“In the villages the situation becomes awful and diseases spread due to improper waste management in the post Eid scenario which needs to be addressed,” he warned.
The green activists also suggested for developing trained human resources in the cities and in different parts of the country, who can slaughter the sacrificial animals following religious moral and conserve hide, horn and other body parts of the cattle for turning those into resources as those are valuable exportable items.
Develop specific slaughtering centres where people can slaughter safely by paying adequate fees and waste would be treated centrally without harming the environment, the added.
