A joint study by the Geography and Environment Department of Jahangirnagar University, Environmental Science Department of Stamford University and Waterkeepers, Bangladesh has shown that leather production is having a significant impact on water quality.
Read More...Thousands of workers, who were denied financial compensation, face unemployment after the relocation of tanneries from Hazaribagh to Savar.
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The leather industry in Bangladesh has certainly not lacked in detractors - for many valid reasons of its own creation. For years, incompetent and dishonest bureaucrats - in connivance with unscrupulous contractors, CETP suppliers and so-called “experts” from academia - have been taking advantage of the preferred “head in the sand” mindset of many Bangladesh tannery owners.
Read More...Bangladesh's tanners are reported to have illegally used abandoned factories in Hazaribagh, a district of capital Dhaka, to store raw hides and to have dumped remaining waste in open public spaces.
Read More...The untreated effluents are polluting the Dhaleswari river, with water tested by local authorities showing the presence of chrome over three times the permitted level, it is claimed.
Read More...Overall, Bangladesh’s total export earnings are reported to have dropped -1.38% year-on-year, with the relocation of tanneries from Hazaribagh to the Savar Tannery Zone impacting the leather sector’s performance.
Read More...A bulk of waste is reported to have remained in Hazaribagh, five months after the tanneries relocated to the new Savar Industrial Zone.
Read More...Local water services have reported that the water quality of the Buriganga river has slowly started to improve after the tanneries relocated from Hazaribagh to Savar.
Read More...If some tanneries are already operational in the new Savar Industrial zone producing wet-blue and some crust, no concrete solution seems to yet have been found for the treatment of solid waste.
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Hundreds of workers and tannery owners are reported to have taken part in a black flag procession held in Hazaribagh on March 12 under the banner of 'Chamra Shilpo Oikko Parishad' (United Leather Industry Council).
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