Selim Reza, Tanvir Ahmed, Sirajganj :
Highly poisonous waste discharged from unauthorized and unplanned yarn dyeing and processing mills relentlessly polluting the surrounding environment of Belkuchi Upazila in Sirajganj district. Creating myriad sufferings such toxic waste is seriously disrupting the ecological steadiness of environment posing an immense peril to health of local inhabitants here.
“Weak enforcement of anti-pollution laws makes it easier for mill owners to continue pollution”, said the sources to this reporter.
“Being an industrial area there are more than 150 yarn dyeing and processing mills at Mukondogati, Ajugora, Tamai, Chandangati, Chala village of Belkuchi Upazila. Mill owners use toxic chemicals like solid color, caustic soda, sulphuric acid, acetic acid, bleaching powder, hydrogen-per-oxide and others chemical elements to treat the thread.
As there is no treatment plant and passable drainage system in their factories they compelled to discharge the untreated toxic waste into ponds, canals, and marshes nearby their factories recklessly without considering equipoise of environment posing a serious health hazard of people including the loss of fertility of cultivable croplands and trees as well”, said the local inhabitants.
“These pitch black toxic waste mixed with different sources of water and gradually swallow through earth’s layer making tube-wells water undrinkable with yellowish color and acute toxic stench. Thus these mills ultimately creates a sever crisis of clean and pure drinking water polluting different water bodies that common people might use to accomplish their daily necessities”, said Raisul Alam, a local school teacher.
“Besides, the odor rises from the polluted water bodies produces toxic stench wafting through the air that creating a suffocating atmosphere especially in summer that also increases the sufferings of the local people here”, said the sources.
“Poisonous waste from factories has very adverse affect on human health. People living nearby those mills are bound to use polluted toxic water as there are no pure, safe and available sources of water.
Highly poisonous waste discharged from unauthorized and unplanned yarn dyeing and processing mills relentlessly polluting the surrounding environment of Belkuchi Upazila in Sirajganj district. Creating myriad sufferings such toxic waste is seriously disrupting the ecological steadiness of environment posing an immense peril to health of local inhabitants here.
“Weak enforcement of anti-pollution laws makes it easier for mill owners to continue pollution”, said the sources to this reporter.
“Being an industrial area there are more than 150 yarn dyeing and processing mills at Mukondogati, Ajugora, Tamai, Chandangati, Chala village of Belkuchi Upazila. Mill owners use toxic chemicals like solid color, caustic soda, sulphuric acid, acetic acid, bleaching powder, hydrogen-per-oxide and others chemical elements to treat the thread.
As there is no treatment plant and passable drainage system in their factories they compelled to discharge the untreated toxic waste into ponds, canals, and marshes nearby their factories recklessly without considering equipoise of environment posing a serious health hazard of people including the loss of fertility of cultivable croplands and trees as well”, said the local inhabitants.
“These pitch black toxic waste mixed with different sources of water and gradually swallow through earth’s layer making tube-wells water undrinkable with yellowish color and acute toxic stench. Thus these mills ultimately creates a sever crisis of clean and pure drinking water polluting different water bodies that common people might use to accomplish their daily necessities”, said Raisul Alam, a local school teacher.
“Besides, the odor rises from the polluted water bodies produces toxic stench wafting through the air that creating a suffocating atmosphere especially in summer that also increases the sufferings of the local people here”, said the sources.
“Poisonous waste from factories has very adverse affect on human health. People living nearby those mills are bound to use polluted toxic water as there are no pure, safe and available sources of water.
