HEALTH & ENVIRONMENT
Healthy Living, Sustainable Future: Nurturing Well-being and the Earth
HEALTH CONCERN
After the rana Plaza tragedy in 2013, several international buyers have shown their concern about the health and safety measurements at MRG industries in Bangladesh. After that incident, the European-based Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh had been working for 5 years since May 15, 2013, to ensure significant increase in safety in RMG factories.
During their tenure, they have worked with 1600 factories and completed over 89 percent of remediation work. Then Bangladeshi Remediation Coordination Cell (RCC) has taken over the Accord and Alliance’s work and has been working rigorously to ensure the maximum level of electrical, structural and fire safety along with looking into labor rights and factory environment. Because of all these inspections, remediation, workplace programs running for 7 more years have been ensured much healthier and safety environments at MRG industries in Bangladesh.
ENVIRONMENTAL PERSPECTIVE
At this moment, the greatest number of LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certificated RMG (Readymade Garment) industries have located in Bangladesh. The US Green Building Council (USGBC) has provided LEDD green certificates. In Bangladesh, 144 RMG industries are LEED certified and among 41 of them are of platinum level. This number of environmentally friendly green certified RMG industries are much higher than any other competitor countries in the world.
An environmentally friendly green factory can save between 25 to 30 percent of the water and energy by utilizing solar panels, LED lights and the water recycling system. These industries also ensure recommended open spaces around and within the factory, sufficient free spaces between workers and utilization of automated machine facilities.
INTERNATIONAL REMARK
Garments with ‘’Made in Bangladesh’’ tag have reached to all ages people of 150 countries because of its top quality, cheap price, compliance commitments and manufacturing excellences. More than 4000 Bangladeshi RMG factories are serving all the top fashion brands around the globe. Bangladeshi garments products have Duty-free Market Access to EU. All these Bangladeshi RMG factories are maintaining international compliances and assessed in accordance with BSCI, WRAP, SMETA, ICS, Higg index, GTW, RTM, Join Life, ZDHC, Blue Sign, ISO, OCS, GOTS, Oekotex.
We have over 100 garments (Accord Alliances and Green Factories) with massive volume of production per month where produces all types of customised Knit, Woven and Sweater readymade garments throughout the year according to the given time of buyer.
The global environmental injustice of fast fashion
Fast fashion, inexpensive and widely available of-the-moment garments, has changed the way people buy and dispose of clothing. By selling large quantities of clothing at cheap prices, fast fashion has emerged as a dominant business model, causing garment consumption to skyrocket. While this transition is sometimes heralded as the “democratization” of fashion in which the latest styles are available to all classes of consumers, the human and environmental health risks associated with inexpensive clothing are hidden throughout the lifecycle of each garment.
From the growth of water-intensive cotton, to the release of untreated dyes into local water sources, to worker’s low wages and poor working conditions; the environmental and social costs involved in textile manufacturing are widespread.
While fast fashion offers consumers an opportunity to buy more clothes for less, those who work in or live near textile manufacturing facilities bear a disproportionate burden of environmental health hazards.
