Bangladesh has been facing severe problems in waste management for decades.

While walking along the streets you may come across the Manobotar Deyal, translated as Wall of Humanity, where people can hang clothes or other essentials. Similarly, cartoonist Morshed Mishu has built a unique display of kindness — a wall adorned not with ordinary embellishments, but with toys. The wall was set up on 25 December at Ibrahimpur in Mirpur-14.

Wander Woman, a renowned travelling platform, organized the event Re-Pop: Travel Closet Sale from 16 to 17 June at the premises of Moar in Gulshan, Dhaka, where various brands and resellers took part in promoting sustainable fashion by bringing in their pre loved dresses that would find new destinations.

Upcycling is the act of taking something no longer in use and giving it a second life and new function. In doing so, the finished product often becomes more practical, valuable, and beautiful than it previously was. While recycling involves the destruction of waste in order to create something new, upcycling creates something new from it in its current state.

Unfortunately, the clothing industry has drilled this idea into our heads that the biggest fashion crime you can commit is to repeat your clothes. It is time to undo and ditch that unsustainable idea promoted by advocates of fast fashion.

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

Fun ways to adopting a zero-waste lifestyle.