CREATE

Circular Economy in Bangladesh’s Apparel Industry

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Create Project

CREATE receives 12 million Danish Kroner grant (equivalent to 17 Crore BDT) from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark (DANIDA) which Associate Professor Mohammad B. Rana from Aalborg University Business School, Denmark, leads that collaborates with Copenhagen Business School, Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology (as local coordinator), Dhaka University, Institute of Business Administration (DU), Bangladesh Garments Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA), Danish Fashion and Textile (DM&T), Global Fashion Agenda Copenhagen, Access2Innovation Denmark, SOAS University of London, Manchester Fashion Institute and  Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, and Ethical Trading Initiative, UK.

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Activities

CREATE project team visited CYCLO Textile Waste Recycling Factory

September 3, 2023

After visiting the TEAM Group factory in Savar in the morning on 8th August 2023, CREATE Project team visited the…

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CREATE visits DBL Group: A Pathfinder in Apparel Circularity Transition in Bangladesh

August 28, 2023

CREATE team embarked on a field visit to various locations including the garment factories, recycling facilities, textile waste clusters, and…

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Publications

‘Pre-Consumer Textile Waste Recycling with No GHG Emission’

April 19, 2024

This is Baliadanghi in Thakurgaon district, a small village in the northern edges of Bangladesh. There are around 20 or so cottage factories in this village, where people of both genders from all walks of life stand and work with pit looms in their own houses, making doormats using textile waste. Day in and day out, they juggle their time between loom work and household chores, maintaining their livelihoods and their responsibilities to their families.

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