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 Team Visits Konabari Jhoot Cluster in Bangaldesh

August 25, 2023

On 6th August 2023, CREATE Team spent almost half-day at Konabari textile waste cluster (Jhoot Cluster) to understand the informality…

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Seminar on the Challenges in the Circular Economy Transition in Bangladesh’s Apparel Industry

August 22, 2023

After the completion of the PhD program and two rounds of factory visits and stakeholders’ interviews CREATE-project seminar was held…

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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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