Bangladesh's textile firms turn to technology to sort waste crisis


Digital tracing helps Bangladesh sort management of textile waste and could boost exports. — AFP

DHAKA: The world's second biggest exporter of clothes, Bangladesh is looking to technology to gain control of the fashion industry's other major product: textile waste.

Cloud-hosted software allows manufacturers to segregate, label and register waste on a digital platform and track it as it passes between factories, handlers and recyclers.

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