DHAKA, July 1, 2025 (BSS) - Environment, Forest and Climate Change Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan today emphasised the urgent ...

China may be the world’s largest manufacturer of plastic, the report finds, but the United States is by far the world’s largest generator of plastic waste—it produced about 42 million metric ...

Syeda Rizwana Hasan, Advisor to the Ministry of Environment, Forests, Climate Change and Water Resources, has announced a series of proactive steps aimed at tackling air pollution, with a strong focus ...

Dhaka WASA adopted a master plan to bring all buildings under a sewage network. As the plan has not been implemented, around ...

Dhaka is a city of contradictions. It's a place where you can attend a rooftop art exhibition overlooking a slum, where a phuchka vendor philosophises about inflation, where the smell of rain on ...

India restricts entry of jute from Bangladesh through land ports due to unfair trade practices and economic concerns.

The company has invested around Tk150 crore to establish a state-of-the-art recycling facility in Narayanganj, equipped to handle a wide range of e-waste materials ...

The treaty, spearheaded by the United Nations in March 2022, aims to address plastic waste across its full life cycle—from production to disposal—and is expected to be finalised in 2026 following ongo ...

That convenience was cast in a new light last January, when China, the biggest importer, stopped buying most recycled waste. After 25 years as the world’s salvage king, China refused to buy any ...

This footage reveals the harsh reality of the Buriganga River in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Once a vital lifeline for the city, it is ...

At least 470 workers have been killed and 512 seriously injured in the shipbreaking yards of Bangladesh, India and Pakistan since 2009.