A man collecting discarded plastic bottles from the Buriganga river at the capital’s Farashganj Launch Terminal yesterday. These bottles are later taken to scrap shops in Sadarghat, where they are broken and processed into little plastic chips, which are used for making other plastic products.
Photo: Amran Hossain
Scrap pieces of wood and parked rickshaws occupying a big portion of an around 40ft wide road over Beribandh next to the Buriganga in Shyambazar. Parked rickshaws only made the situation worse. Gridlocks are very common on this road. The photo was taken yesterday. Photo: Amran Hossain
A school teacher in Chandpur collecting books that are meant to be distributed among her primary school students. New books will be given to primary students all around the country on January 1. The photo was taken recently. Photo: Alam Palash
