20-PA – Increasing employment by creating value from plastic waste in Bangladesh

About this project

Increasing employment by creating value from plastic waste in Bangladesh This project aims to transform the lives of informal waste workers by creating a new market for a stream of plastic waste that currently has no commercial value (SDG 11.6 and 12.5). Working conditions and respect for waste workers will be significantly improved, and new jobs created (SDG 8.3 and SDG 1). With RiverRecycle we will support waste-picker groups in Faridpur to collect single-use polythene from houses, businesses, dumps and rivers, separate and process it into saleable light synthetic fuel oil. There will be oversight and regulation through embedding the system within municipal structures, linking with existing waste processes and with other waste actors. The teaming of commercial and development outcomes will bring new insights and achieve business and social outcomes alike which can be a model for rolling the system out across the country and beyond.

Goals

Sustainable Development Goals this project works towards

• 12Responsible Consumption and Production

Published by

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Denmark · Government

Countries

Bangladesh

Sectors

Waste management/disposalI.4. Water supply and sanitation

Focus

Environment · Main focusBiodiversity · Also contributes

Funded by

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Denmark

Accountable

Practical Action

Published by Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Denmark to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 30 Oct 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: XM-DAC-3-1-286114-34722.

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