EnvironmentTwelve volunteers covered in plastic and e-waste collected from the sea walked Cox's Bazar beach to warn tourists against littering; the deputy commissioner said at least a million visitors came in ten days.
EnvironmentChattogram district administration has signed a one-year agreement with YPSA Waste Management Enterprise to collect and recycle the plastic students hand in at Chattogram Zoo.
EnvironmentUnder a Department of Environment project on plastics and marine litter, Radhanagar in Sreemangal held an awareness meeting and clean-up, and the resort owners' association received a plastic crusher machine.
EnvironmentVolunteer group Prayas in Pakundia, Kishoreganj, gave one fruit, timber or medicinal sapling for every three plastic bottles or set amount of plastic waste, handing out about 700 saplings on Friday.
FisheriesResearchers from Chattogram Veterinary and Animal Sciences University and Noakhali Science and Technology University have found microplastics in Kaptai Lake's fish, water and bed sediment; scientists say people need not stop eating the fish, but the sources of plastic must be shut off.
EnvironmentA BRAC project funded by the Bangladesh Climate Change Trust Fund has collected about 150 tonnes of waste on St Martin's Island in 11 months and composts its organic waste, but its first phase ends on 30 November with no decision on renewal.
FisheriesBangladesh Oceanographic Research Institute studies found an average of seven or more microplastic particles in commercial Bay of Bengal fish; fishers say plastic now comes up in every net, and a BRAC survey puts plastic reaching Cox's Bazar's sea at 34.5 tonnes a day.
EnvironmentLaunched by environment minister Abdul Awal Mintoo with UNDP and the World Economic Forum's Global Plastic Action Partnership, the platform aims to join up government, business and waste workers.
Bidyanondo Foundation has built a sculpture from five tonnes of waste plastic on Cox's Bazar beach to show the scale of sea pollution; entry to a film beside it costs two used plastic bottles.
EnvironmentBefore the tourist season has begun, bottles and polythene bearing Myanmar and Thai brand names have piled up on Chhera Dwip, the southern tip of St Martin's Island.
EnvironmentResearchers found plastic waste 15 to 17 years old 15 feet down in the Buriganga's bed; fish from the river carry more microplastics than fish from the Bay of Bengal, and Sundarbans water holds 23.25 particles a litre.
EnvironmentBangladesh produces about 3,000 tonnes of plastic waste a day, much of it ending up in rivers; microplastics have been found in Buriganga fish and crabs, while the polythene ban and court orders go unenforced.
EnvironmentAt a Department of Environment project event in Natore, speakers called for proper handling of chemical, farm and electronic waste as well as plastic.
