Environment and Social Development Organization

A global manufacturing centre of the fast fashion sector, Bangladesh, with no specific regulations on PFAS, has high levels of toxic PFAS chemicals in its surface and tap water samples, collected from industrial areas that are centres of the textiles industry throughout and around Dhaka.

Reports on Bangladesh's ready-made garment industry are mostly about apparel workers, or the country's rising share in apparel exports. There is, however, an underbelly that remains off the radar: the unmitigated pollution of waterbodies. A report from the ground.