Environment minister warns leather industry in Bangladesh
Bangladesh’s environment minister Shahjahan Siraj has stressed the need to shift the country’s leather industry out of the city and into purpose-built premises with effluent treatment capacity.
The minister was speaking at the inauguration of a chrome recovery plant at Dhaka Hide and Skins Ltd in Hazaribagh. Mr Siraj praised the new facility and took the opportunity to urge tannery owners in Bangladesh to prepare themselves for a relocation of their operations in the future.
The minister pointed out that the Buriganga river was becoming heavily polluted by industrial waste and called for effective steps to be taken to save it. Mr. Siraj also wants to encourage tannery owners to follow the example of Dhaka Hide and Skins Ltd. and set up chrome recovery plants, which he said were essential for refining industrial waste.
