The Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) has sent a proposal to the industries ministry for taking a project that will make the Central Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) at the Savar Tannery Industrial Estate (STIE) fully functional.
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
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.
Bangladesh's rawhide market appears to have made a comeback this Eid-ul-Azha on the back of higher demand, better prices and a bar on rawhides arriving in Dhaka.