New Year’s Eve 2024: the cost of the celebration in Dhaka
Air and noise pollution, burn injuries and dead birds: what one night of fireworks left behind.
Have you bought the fireworks?
Every burst of celebration left something behind. This brief gathers reported figures on pollution, injuries and harm to animals from New Year’s Eve in Dhaka, and notes that fireworks were already banned.
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Sources are cited on each slide (CAPS at Stamford University Bangladesh, National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery, Bangladesh Bird Club, PAW Foundation).