BD mulls new guideline for industrial sludge management
Tuesday, 18 March 2014
The Department of Environment (DoE) plans to incorporate a new guideline on industrial sludge management in the environmental regulation, officials said on Tuesday. The officials told a consultation of Bangladesh-Germany joint-project, titled Promotion of Social and Environmental Standards in the Industry (PSES), that they have almost completed the guideline for effluent management of textile and other industries. The consultation was jointly organised by DoE and GIZ (German Agency for International Cooperation) in the capital. PSESI senior advisor Elke Shrestha said, "Following this consultation process, we expect to see the standards and guidelines for textile sludge, hazardous sludge from other industries and sludge from central effluent treatment plants (CETPs) in industrial zones finalised and gazetted to become part of the environmental regulations," according to a news agency.