In South Asia, the urgent need for affordable mobility has led to a rapid embrace of e-mobility, but often with regrettable technology choices like lead-acid batteries (LABs) used in electric 3-wheelers. This report explores the challenges associated with LABs as well as potential solutions to managing these in Bangladesh.
This annual review report showcases SMEP’s execution and impact for the financial year of 2023-2024. During the year under review, the programme had significant expansion into new sectors and undertook high-level engagements with regulatory and policy-making bodies.
This project seeks to address key environmental impacts from the tanneries and leather sector by developing and piloting a digitised traceability and environmental footprint system that will assist tanneries in Bangladesh to transition to more sustainable methods of production in their manufacturing processes.
The tanneries sector is critical to Bangladesh’s economy, but the industry has many environmentally destructive practices, such as the dumping of toxic waste into water sources, that lead to detrimental environmental and health impacts. The Ethical Trading Initiative, and consortium partners, are aiming to address these challenges by working with 40 tanneries in the Savar
This project aims to create a business case for sustainable practices in Bangladesh’s RMG/Textile factories. By showcasing innovative technologies, including a modular Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) system, the initiative will demonstrate technical viability and pilot a 1% surcharge business model.
The textile industry faces environmental challenges such as excessive water consumption and wastewater pollution. Bangladesh’s textile manufacturing industry has announced sustainability goals, including reducing its blue water footprint and meeting wastewater guidelines. This project aims to showcase that this goal can be realised and address social and environmental water impacts in textile manufacturing.
Reverse Resources provides a digital traceability solution to the current mismanagement of textile waste through tracing the waste and connecting it with textile-2-textile recyclers. The platform furthermore enables real-time data and statistics of waste flows to encourage evidence-based decision making and to support the growth of this new market.
SMEP Chapters: A video series exploring Tanzania, Kenya, Pakistan and Bangladesh View this series of videos produced by UNCTAD for the SMEP Programme to gain an understanding of the manufacturing and plastic pollution realities in these geographies.
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