In ‘Smart Bangladesh,’ how smart is it to kill our rivers? As if in vengeance we have been ferociously and relentlessly destroying our rivers in, what can only be termed as, a suicidal streak.
To advance the country's leather sector, acquiring more land is necessary to solve various problems including waste management in the Tannery Industrial Estate in Savar, said Mohammad Tofazzel Hossain Miah, principal secretary to the prime minister. "We need to modernise the CETP [common effluent treatment plant] more.
A racket created over the Savar Tannery Industrial Estate smuggles high-chromium tannery waste, which ends up being used in animal feed. Thus, tanneries' chromium-containing toxic waste eventually enters the human body through fish and chicken, causing a risk of serious diseases, including cancer. It is also a violation of High Court directives to stop the use of tannery waste
Despite the raging global economic crisis, Bangladesh’s leather and leather products sector witnessed a 17.56 per cent year-on-year growth in export earnings in the first five months of the current fiscal year on the back of orders shifting away from competitors.
A local company is set to export solid waste generated at the Savar Tannery Industrial Estate (STIE), a move that could show the way for curbing the dumping of polluting materials in open yards and cutting the scope for environmental pollution.