A woman working on a massive pile of throwaway plastic bottles in the Notun Baklia Bridge area of Chattogram. Hazardous as the single-use bottles are for the environment, many people in the country make a living out of picking up, sorting out, and bringing the bottles to factories that melt them into tiny plastic beads that are used by different industries in China. Photo: Prabir Das
It is illegal to set up markets or commercial establishments within 10 metres of a highway area, reads a signboard that is ironically placed in the middle of an illegal market that sprouted on a highway in Ashulia of Dhaka. Photo: SK Enamul Haq
