With the aim to provide effective guidance to textile and apparel manufacturing units to resource efficient management of chemicals, Bangladesh’s Ministry of Commerce is preparing a National Chemical Management Guidelines for the textile and garment sector.
Media reports maintained this adding the guideline will give textile and apparel units guidance to resource efficient management of chemicals in a way that is environment friendly and safe for the people working in the factories even as it went on to add Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany is helping the Ministry of Commerce to develop the guideline even if a consultation session has already been organised by the Ministry of Commerce recently to share the draft guidelines with the stakeholders and gather their suggestions on it.
Even if the country (Bangladesh) in the second biggest garment exporter globally, there is no national guideline governing the management of chemicals, consequent to which the textile sector is, reportedly, forced to comply with different standards set by different fashion brands, claimed reports adding a comprehensive national guideline on chemical management would thus help address this challenge.
