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Bangladesh: Foreign buyers paying less for green factory apparel

According to Tofail Ahmed, Bangladesh’s commerce minister foreign buyers are not paying enough for apparel and garments manufactured in eco-friendly factories. Investments have been made to make factories eco-friendly, however, buyers have not increased prices. On the contrary, they have been cutting prices.

Factories turned green after the Rana Plaza collapse in 2013 that claimed the lives of 1,130 people, with a view to improve workplace safety and environment. After this incident, multiple steps were taken to ensure workers' safety.

The national initiative, Accord, and Alliance inspected over 3,780 factories and ended up renovating 47 factories and closing 39 of them. The initiative also resulted in seven factories in the country receiving leadership in energy and environmental design certificates from the Green Building Council of the US.

Less than 2 per cent factories in Bangladesh are non-compliant, which is an internationally recognized standard, says Tofail. Germany being the second largest market for Bangladesh, labour laws of the country were amended and workers welfare association were allowed to be formed in export processing zones.

 
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