Concept Note for Recycling and Fashion Product

Cost:
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Capital
HR/Specialist (Development + environmental)
Collaboration/partnerships with FH, Coke, Meena Bazaar etc.
SC cost (to be done with Coke)

Infolady:
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Money from retail and ToT (scale-up)

Free training
Exclusive training
E-Commerce with Jeeon (scale-up)

Buy product and taka 5 gets donated to support child education for urchins in urban
areas and rural areas as well as for women empowerment

Concept Note for Recycling

Background:
Bangladesh is the ninth most populous country and twelfth most densely populated
countries in the world. In particular, the projected urban population growth rate
from 2010 - 2015 is 3%. With this population growth, there is an increasing problem
of waste management particularly in the larger cities. Currently, according to an
UNFPA report, Dhaka is one of the most polluted cities in the world and one of the
issues concerned is the management of municipal waste. By some estimates,
Bangladeshs densely populated capital, Dhaka, has generated more than 5,000
tons of waste each day by 2015a 47 percent rise from its 2004 baseline of 3,400
tons per day. In 2012, waste generation in Bangladesh was around 22.4 million
tonnes per year or 150 kg/cap/year. Of these, nearly
There is an increasing rate of waste generation in Bangladesh and it is projected to
reach 47, 064 tonnes per day by 2025. The Waste Generation Rate (kg/cap/day) is
expected to increase to 0.6 in 2025. A significant percentage of the population has
zero access to proper waste disposal services, which will in effect lead to the
problem of waste mismanagement.
Dhaka has experienced a number of adverse impacts including high prevalence of
disease, contaminated ground water and poor air quality. The waste sector in
Bangladesh is also a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions because it
generates methane, which is twenty-five times more potent as a greenhouse gas
than carbon dioxide (CO2). Excluding carbon dioxide, this sector produced 17 million
metric tons of CO-equivalent in 2005, or 27% of the nations total non-CO2
emissions. By 2020, waste related emissions are projected to increase by 22
percent, to 20 million metric tons. The total waste collection rate in major cities of
Bangladesh such as Dhaka is only 37%. When waste is not properly collected, it will
be illegally disposed of and this will pose serious environmental and health hazards
to the Bangladeshis.
On January 13 2001, a group of young professionals met to discuss how information
and communication technology (ICT) can be integrated into the economic
development process of Bangladesh and beyond her geographic boundary. The
outcome of the meeting was a decision to build a dedicated institution for research
on mainstreaming ICT in poverty alleviation and economic development. Dnet is a
non-profit Social Enterprise fostering innovations for empowerment of marginalized
communities with special emphasis on women and children focusing on technology
and access to information and knowledge.
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