Garment and textile recycling in Bangladesh

Rumi Akter and Rachel Alexander

Chapter 7 in Global Value Chains and Climate Change, 2025, pp 174-198 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Addressing the fashion industry's escalating environmental impact, particularly its growing carbon footprint, necessitates a re-evaluation of the prevailing linear business model. This chapter advocates for a paradigm shift towards circularity, integrating a circular business model aimed at mitigating climate change by reducing, reusing, and recycling by-products generated in the garment manufacturing process. Given Bangladesh's position as the world's second-largest ready-made garment (RMG) producer, it harbours a substantial volume of textile scraps locally known as “jhut.” In Bangladesh, jhut is commercially traded and sorted to be repurposed for new uses. This chapter maps out how the jhut industry functions. In doing so, it provides lessons in terms of ways to productively use garment production by-products. These insights are relevant to researchers, garment-producing countries, and other interested stakeholders, such as brands and retailers developing sustainability plans.

Keywords: Bangladesh; Circular Economy; Gloobal Recycling Network; Global Value Chain; Jhut (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035310951
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