Dumpsite pickers around Dhaka's Matuail landfill, led by women, have formed a union demanding to be legally recognised as environmental workers.
2,286membersUnion members listed by the International Alliance of Waste Pickers (1,723 women)
A Bangladeshi social enterprise partnered with Cordaid, WFP and the Rohingya community to turn discarded food-aid sachets and plastic into sellable bags, bracelets and wallets inside Cox's Bazar's camps.
500peopleRefugees engaged in upcycling
500kpacketsFood packets upcycled since Sept 2020
Dead ships are run at full speed onto the beach at Chattogram and cut up where they lie, by men with blowtorches standing in asbestos and oil residue.
10yardsYards in the Green and Safer Ship Recycling project
5,000workersWorkers reached directly