National River Conservation Commission (NRCC) Chairman Manjur Ahmed Choudhury has expressed his doubts about claims from the Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) regarding wastewater treatment quality at the Savar tanning complex.
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Tanners in the Savar Industrial Complex fear losing business during Eid-ul-Azha due to a lack of compliance with environmental regulations and for not settling land lease deeds.
Read More...The Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) has announced plans to establish three more leather industrial complexes, with the aim of creating 400,000 jobs over the next five years.
Read More...The environment ministry has agreed with a watchdog recommendation to immediately close the Savar Tannery Industrial Estate, which has been running without facilities to properly treat its waste for 10 years.
Read More...The Italian bio-stimulant producer has reportedly submitted a proposal to manage solid waste at the Savar Tannery Industrial Estate, with the intent of recycling it into biogas and fertilisers.
Read More...A Savar taskforce has decided to establish a central storage facility in the tanning complex to “ensure fair prices and quality as well as proper management of rawhides and skins”.
Read More...The Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has recommended awarding compensation to victims of environmental pollution, such as around the Savar Tannery Industrial Estate.
Read More...Speakers called upon the government to update the tanning industry in Bangladesh at the 57th founding anniversary event for the Tannery Workers Union (TWU) at BSCIC Leather Industrial City in Savar on October 11.
Read More...The Environment, Forest and Climate Change Ministry in Bangladesh has moved to implement a recommendation on shutting down the tannery complex in Savar. A parliamentary committee from the ministry on August 23 recommended shutting down the Savar Tannery Industrial Estate (STIE) at Hemayetpur because it does not have adequate facilities to treat the amount of solid and liquid waste generated by the tanners.
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ILM reported back in July, based on an article written by the Bangladesh Daily Star, that “the incomplete Hemayetpur CETP caused headaches”. That is clearly the understatement of the decade. I have written over and again that the CETP in the Savar tannery cluster is a total disgrace. Until now nobody in Government and industry alike has been willing to look reality in the eye and take the necessary decisions. Everybody is walking around the cake, without taking a bite out of it.
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