"Some workers from other yards told me they buy their own gloves." The industry in Bangladesh is evolving to come in line with new regulations, officials say. The government, through a parliamentary act in 2018, ordered yard-owners to clean up their practices by 2023 and implement standards laid down in the Hong Kong International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships.
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When Samrat Hossain first started cutting up old ships weighing thousands of tons in a southeast Bangladesh shipbreaking yard a decade ago, all he would wear was a cap or a helmet.
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