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

About this project

Bangladesh’s waste system is not profitable, not widely implemented, and leads to environmental damage. Streams that are easy to recycle and have a high value, such as glass, metal and PET, are more likely to be collected and recirculated into the economy than low-value and hard-to-recycle waste. As only items with a higher established value are recycled, there is a missed opportunity for lower value plastic. Practical Action and commercial partner Riverrecycle Oy, seek to transform the lives of informal waste workers by creating a new market for a stream of plastic waste which currently has no commercial value. The project introduces pyrolysis technology to the most polluted points of the Padma River in Bangladesh, and will integrate waste pickers into a plastic-collection and processing workstream, creating new jobs, improving working conditions and creating commercial value out of plastic waste. The Danida Market Development Partnerships programme (DMDP) is designed to support commercially oriented partnerships for sustainable market development in developing countries. In addition to reporting on individually determined outputs and outcomes, all DMDP projects report on five key programme indicators. These five indicators are the same for the whole project portfolio, enabling strategic and programme level monitoring, and aggregation of results. At the programme level, three key outcomes which are related to three of the five key programme indicators, have been chosen for…

Published by

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Denmark · Government

Countries

Bangladesh

Sectors

I.4. Water supply and sanitation

Funded by

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Denmark

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.

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