plastic waste recycling

Global Recycling Day / Reduce, reuse, recycle… and then what?

The reality is that recycling alone cannot combat the environmental impact of plastic waste.

World Environment Day / Plastic most lethal among all waste

Plastics are silently piling on the environmental miseries of Bangladesh, one of the most climate change-vulnerable countries in the world.

Bidyanondo introduces 'Rickshaw Bin' in Dhaka

This initiative will help reduce the city's plastic pollution and the recyclable plastic waste will provide financial support for the rickshaw driver.

Bangladesh recycles only 36% plastic waste: experts

Only 36 per cent of the 8.25 lakh tonnes of plastic waste Bangladesh produced in 2019 were recycled whereas the amount was 51 per cent in 2006, a matter of big concern for the country, an expert said today.

Plastic waste mismanagement is killing our environment

Private sector companies who daily contribute to plastic pollution must come up with ways to manage it.

Pashe Achi Initiative distributes books in exchange for plastic waste

In the latest initiative of Gronthomongol, a project aimed at rescuing the Nilkhet book market from the economic blows brought by the pandemic, youth organisation Pashe Achi Initiative are distributing books among readers in exchange for plastic waste.

No money? No worries. Indonesians get bus ride with plastic waste

Indonesia’s second-largest city comes up with a novel way to encourage its residents to recycle waste: giving free bus rides in exchange for used plastic bottles.

March 18, 2024
March 18, 2024

Reduce, reuse, recycle… and then what?

The reality is that recycling alone cannot combat the environmental impact of plastic waste.

June 5, 2023
June 5, 2023

Plastic most lethal among all waste

Plastics are silently piling on the environmental miseries of Bangladesh, one of the most climate change-vulnerable countries in the world.

March 1, 2023
March 1, 2023

Bidyanondo introduces 'Rickshaw Bin' in Dhaka

This initiative will help reduce the city's plastic pollution and the recyclable plastic waste will provide financial support for the rickshaw driver.

January 4, 2023
January 4, 2023

Bangladesh recycles only 36% plastic waste: experts

Only 36 per cent of the 8.25 lakh tonnes of plastic waste Bangladesh produced in 2019 were recycled whereas the amount was 51 per cent in 2006, a matter of big concern for the country, an expert said today.

September 13, 2022
September 13, 2022

Plastic waste mismanagement is killing our environment

Private sector companies who daily contribute to plastic pollution must come up with ways to manage it.

December 11, 2021
December 11, 2021

Pashe Achi Initiative distributes books in exchange for plastic waste

In the latest initiative of Gronthomongol, a project aimed at rescuing the Nilkhet book market from the economic blows brought by the pandemic, youth organisation Pashe Achi Initiative are distributing books among readers in exchange for plastic waste.

October 26, 2018
October 26, 2018

No money? No worries. Indonesians get bus ride with plastic waste

Indonesia’s second-largest city comes up with a novel way to encourage its residents to recycle waste: giving free bus rides in exchange for used plastic bottles.