The reality is that recycling alone cannot combat the environmental impact of plastic waste.

Plastics are silently piling on the environmental miseries of Bangladesh, one of the most climate change-vulnerable countries in the world.

This initiative will help reduce the city's plastic pollution and the recyclable plastic waste will provide financial support for the rickshaw driver.

Only 36 per cent of the 8.25 lakh tonnes of plastic waste Bangladesh produced in 2019 were recycled whereas the amount was 51 per cent in 2006, a matter of big concern for the country, an expert said today.

Private sector companies who daily contribute to plastic pollution must come up with ways to manage it.

In the latest initiative of Gronthomongol, a project aimed at rescuing the Nilkhet book market from the economic blows brought by the pandemic, youth organisation Pashe Achi Initiative are distributing books among readers in exchange for plastic waste.

Indonesia’s second-largest city comes up with a novel way to encourage its residents to recycle waste: giving free bus rides in exchange for used plastic bottles.