Blogs

Blog posts and blog series on solid waste managment and humanitarian work, urban heat development, and plastic pollution:
 

1. Bangladesh, Mangos and Solid Waste

2. Cities are Burning: How to Mitigate the Urban Heat Island Effect

3. The Paradolx of Plastic for Achieving the SDGs

1. Bangladesh, Mangos and Solid Waste

Blog series. One year in Bangladesh. One year with the Swiss Red Cross. One year working on my passion: Solid Waste Management.
With stops in Cox's Bazar, Dhaka, Gazipur and Sylhet. In this blog series, I will take you on a journey to mangos, weddings, the world's largest refugee camp, and to - and on the top of - multiple sanitary landfills and dumsites...

2. Cities are Burning:
How to Mitigate the Urban Heat Island Effect

An often-underestimated consequence of man-made climate change is heat. More extreme heatwaves than ever before have been attributed to climate change, causing health issues, fatalities, both environmental and financial damage. Cities are particularly vulnerable, as they retain significantly more heat than their non-urban surroundings. Using the example of Dhaka, Bangladesh, this blog examines the Urban Heat Island (UHI) Effect and points towards possible solutions.

3, The Paradolx of Plastic for Achieving the SDGs

Plastic is an inevitable commodity to reach the UN Sustainabile Development Goals (SDG). However, the same plastic helping us to achieve some of them, hinders us to achieve others. Numerous policies, from the international to the local level aim to reduce, reuse and recycle waste. However, significant efforts are still needed to rethink and limit the use of plastic.