Eco-friendly chemicals can reduce impact on environment

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Economic Reporter :
Britacel Silicones Limited organized a symposium with a Slogan of “GO GREEN SAVE EARTH” SUSTAINABILITY 2.0 held at Radisson blu in the city of Dhaka.
H.T Imam, Adviser to the Prime Minister of Bangladesh was present as chief guest, while Mirza Azam (MP) State Minister of Textile and Jute Govt. of Bangladesh attended the proggramme inauguration ceremony as special quest where business leaders from Bangladesh Textile Industries and experts were present.
In this Symposium programme speech by Ketan Deshi, Director Britacel Ltd, Arindam Choudhuri- Head of Technical, Britacel Silicon’s ltd, Sumit Gupta GOTS (Global Organic Textile Standard) Representative in India & Bangladesh, Prashant Pote, BlueSign Technologies AG, Rashmi Naidi (REACH), Prasad Pant (ZDHC).
Speakers at a seminar stressed on use Eco-friendly chemicals and more renewable raw materials in textile, leathers and plastic processing which would reduce impact on the environment. They also called for fewer natural resources to keep it for the next generation and give a cushion to the earth as climate change has become a burning issue. Sustainability changes lots of approach of textile chemical manufacturing industries in last 3-4 years. Textile industry uses chemical in dying and washing, while leather industry uses it in processing hides. They came up with the call at a symposium on Sustainability on the importance and impact of green initiatives across the textile value chain.
Sustainability is the responsible management of resources to meet present needs in textile processing field without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs, said the participants. Everybody is busy for designing better chemistry, right now! Eliminate risks rather than controlling them. With the time the synthetic chemical industries changes its shape & size with new revolution for the continuous demand on textile, leather and plastic processing industries, they added.
To do well, we have to do actually something to create transparency on raw materials. Stop accepting inherent risk and start learning sustainability approach from other industries, experts suggested. Our Moto is to produce safe green chemicals with lower resources using new raw materials for supporting zero waste initiatives, said the sector people. In future, we should think about chemicals which easily biodegradable and that are recyclable and won’t impact environment, they added.
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