First, a gang smuggles solid wastes of leather (leftovers after cutting and trimming) from the Savar Tannery Industrial Estate. Then it sells them to poultry and fish feed producing factories around the country.
A local company is set to export solid waste generated at the Savar Tannery Industrial Estate (STIE), a move that could show the way for curbing the dumping of polluting materials in open yards and cutting the scope for environmental pollution.
Expressing concern over the ongoing pollution in Dhaleswari River because of dumping of tannery waste, green activists yesterday said
