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Water Pollution and the Textile Industry in Bangladesh: Flawed Corporate Practices or Restrictive Opportunities?
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The textile industry in Bangladesh has been a great engine for boosting economic growth in the country. However, with great success came environmental deterioration. Untreated effluents containing heavy metals are being released into rivers from nearby factories, affecting the health of people who live along the polluted rivers. The existing law in Bangladesh, requiring such factories to install an effluent treatment plant (ETP), has not been effective in reducing environmental noncompliance. This paper aims to investigate the reality of the situation that the textile industry faces regarding environmental compliance. It is based on primary data collected from textile factories in Dhaka through a questionnaire survey with complementary interviews. This study especially highlights the barriers and difficulties faced by factories in the installation and operation of ETPs. The results confirm previous findings: Low willingness of companies to meet environmental compliance requirements and inadequate monitoring and enforcement by government authorities. In addition, we reveal that the dominant barriers to ETP installation are at the purchase stage, rather than the construction stage: ETPs are unavailable in local markets and the import tax is high. Institutional arrangements are required to improve this situation; this could include establishing a subsidy scheme that would encourage voluntary construction of central ETPs. We suggest that external pressure is essential for Bangladesh to change and the external bodies exerting such pressure should have objective measures by which to judge compliance; the quality of river water might be the only reliable measure of environmental compliance in this situation.
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Based on a survey of 23 textile factories in Dhaka, the paper finds that environmental noncompliance reflects both low corporate willingness and institutional barriers, especially at the ETP import stage. It argues that external pressure is essential and that river water quality may be the only reliable compliance measure.
Key findings
- Among 23 surveyed textile companies with ETPs, mean employment was 1,918 workers (range 200–10,000); mean yearly ETP operation cost was 13,923,889 BDT, mean installation cost 25,185,113 BDT, mean import cost 17,243,200 BDT, and mean total import plus installation cost 63,742,566 BDT.
- Monitoring and enforcement were weak: 22 of 23 companies reported DoE inspection, but only 2 had ever been penalized; reported fines were 270,400 BDT and 400,000 BDT, and DoE monitoring was mostly at three-month intervals, allowing factories to prepare ETPs before visits.
- The dominant barriers to ETP installation were at the import stage rather than construction: all ETPs were imported, ETPs were unavailable locally, customs duty was 26.27% in FY2017–2018, and buyer-recommended ETPs were often more expensive than those found through companies’ own searches.
- About 70% of responding companies said ETP installation was financially manageable and about 70% did not find operation much of a financial burden; the paper contrasts Bangladesh with India, where Tamil Nadu’s first CETP operated 10 years after the 1981 Water Act, while Bangladesh had no operating CETPs 24 years after the 1995 Environmental Conservation Act.
Methods
- Questionnaire survey conducted July–October 2018 with textile factories in Dhaka, using a DoE list of 265 companies with ETPs and snowball sampling after low willingness to respond; 23 textile companies with ETPs completed the survey, supplemented by interviews.
- The questionnaire covered factory profile, ETP specifications, installation and operation costs, and barriers/difficulties; analysis included descriptive statistics and a correlation between yearly operation cost and quantity of treatment per day (0.54, p = 0.05681).
Limitations
- The paper states the data may be biased and does not depict the problem in its entirety; companies without ETPs were reluctant to participate, so the full truth is likely worse, and smaller companies that usually cannot afford ETPs were not included.
- The paper states descriptive statistics were not consistent because some companies provided only installation cost and some only total installation-plus-import cost.
- Evident from the text: the sample is small (23 companies), relies on self-reported questionnaire responses and snowball sampling, and does not directly measure river water quality.
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“This is within the range of the fines reported by Haque [13].”
§ Water Pollution and the Textile Industry in Bangladesh: Flawed Corporate Practices or Restrictive Opportunities? > 3.2. Monitoring and Enforcement
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- Partly supportedcites [13] Haque, 2017, Exploratory Analysis of Fines for Water Pollution in Bangladesh, Water Resour. Ind. sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
Table 2 (shown in our copy under 5. Conclusion; page unavailable) reports fines ranging from 10,000 to 30,000,000 taka. The citing sentence does not give the amount meant by “This,” so the comparison with that range cannot be verified. (LLM, conf=0.78)
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“The mean cost of 13.9 million BDT among the participating companies is almost the same as the average annual operational cost of 13.3 million BDT previously reported for an ETP with around 50 m 3 /h capacity [13].”
§ Water Pollution and the Textile Industry in Bangladesh: Flawed Corporate Practices or Restrictive Opportunities? > 3.3. Barriers to ETP Operation
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- Partly supportedcites [13] Haque, 2017, Exploratory Analysis of Fines for Water Pollution in Bangladesh, Water Resour. Ind. sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Discussion reports an estimated annual wastewater-treatment cost of Tk. 1,33,50,000 (13.35 million BDT) for a small textile-dyeing factory, close to the cited 13.3 million. It does not specify an ETP capacity of around 50 m³/h, and its separately stated annual operational-cost estimate for a chemical ETP is 87.86 million Taka. The cited cost and capacity therefore are not supported together. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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“Through the food chain, this affects the health of people who live along the polluted rivers.”
§ Water Pollution and the Textile Industry in Bangladesh: Flawed Corporate Practices or Restrictive Opportunities? > 1. Introduction
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- Partly supportedcites [7] Mohiuddin, 2019, Chemical Contaminants and Pollutants in the Measurable Life of Dhaka City, Pharma Tutor sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Abstract (page not provided) says Dhaka’s contaminated water resources pose a major health threat. Our copy does not say that the effect occurs through the food chain or specifically affects people living along polluted rivers; searches for those terms returned no supporting passage. (LLM, conf=0.78)
- Not checked yetcites [8] Nishat, A., Ullah, M., and Haque, A.K.E. (2001). Industrial Pollution. Bangladesh Environment OutLook—2001, Centre for Sustainable Development (CSD).
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“In most cases, the price of a recommended ETP was higher than that found with their own search.”
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“There has not been a spike in installations, even though the companies have been under high pressure from foreign buyers as well as the government.”
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“The mean cost of 13.9 million BDT among the participating companies”
§ Water Pollution and the Textile Industry in Bangladesh: Flawed Corporate Practices or Restrictive Opportunities? > 3.3. Barriers to ETP Operation
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“In some cases, where the companies had recommendations from foreign buyers, imported ETPs from European countries were suggested.”
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“ETPs are unavailable in local markets and the import tax is high.”
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“ETPs are unavailable in local markets and the import tax is high.”
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“The companies also have to find the information about purchasing ETPs for themselves.”
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“The estimated annual operating cost for textile dyeing factory is around 13,350,000 BDT [13] and is significantly higher than the average reported fine of 1,965,000 BDT.”
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- Supportedcites [13] Haque, 2017, Exploratory Analysis of Fines for Water Pollution in Bangladesh, Water Resour. Ind. source
The Discussion estimates annual wastewater-treatment costs of Tk. 1,33,50,000 (13,350,000 BDT) for a small textile dyeing factory. Table 2 gives the mean fine as 1,965,000 taka, so the stated cost is higher. The Discussion separately prints “19.6 million Taka” for the average fine, which conflicts with Table 2. (LLM, conf=0.92)
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“Moreover, the maximum fine was 3000 times the minimum fine; this suggests how randomly the fines are determined [13].”
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- Supportedcites [13] Haque, 2017, Exploratory Analysis of Fines for Water Pollution in Bangladesh, Water Resour. Ind. source
Section 3 states that the maximum fine was 3000 times the minimum and says this finding substantiates the arbitrariness of the fines. The citing sentence's reference to fines being determined randomly is a paraphrase of that assessment. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“The reasons for the enforcement failure are insufficient resources (knowledge, human resources, and funds) [4,12]; economic corruption [4,12]; weak political will [4,13]; and inadequate coordination among concerned agencies [14].”
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What the sources say
- Partly supportedcites [4] Belal, 2015, Corporate Environmental Responsibility and Accountability: What Chance in Vulnerable Bangladesh?, Crit. Perspect. Account. sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
Section 3 (p. 313) links failed enforcement to corruption, weak political will, and shortages of manpower, skills, and knowledge; the enforcement discussion also identifies human resources as a constraint. The copy does not specifically identify a lack of funds as a reason for enforcement failure. The coordination clause is cited only to [14], not to this source. (LLM, conf=0.84)
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [12] Belal, 2007, The Views of Corporate Managers on the Current State of, and Future Prospects for, Social Reporting in Bangladesh: An Engagement-Based Study, Account. Audit. Account. J. source
- Partly supportedcites [13] Haque, 2017, Exploratory Analysis of Fines for Water Pollution in Bangladesh, Water Resour. Ind. sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Introduction (page unavailable) attributes weak enforcement partly to a shortage of DoE inspectors, and the Discussion (page unavailable) reports that fines were sometimes reduced or cancelled for political reasons. These passages support limited staffing and political interference, but do not establish shortages of knowledge or funds, economic corruption, or weak political will as such. The sentence cites a different source for inadequate coordination among agencies. (LLM, conf=0.83)
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [14] Bhattacharjee, 2019, Groundwater Governance in Bangladesh: Established Practices and Recent Trends, Groundw. Sustain. Dev. source
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“Analysis of the penalties revealed that the mean fine amount was 1,965,000 Bangladesh Taka (BDT) (1 USD = 80 BDT), with a maximum of 30,000,000 BDT and a minimum of 10,000 BDT.”
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- Supportedcites [13] Haque, 2017, Exploratory Analysis of Fines for Water Pollution in Bangladesh, Water Resour. Ind. source
Table 2 (Properties of variable “fined amount,” reproduced under Conclusion) reports a mean fine of 1,965,000 taka, a maximum of 30,000,000 taka, and a minimum of 10,000 taka. Section 3 identifies these as descriptive statistics for all 290 fine records. (LLM, conf=0.95)
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“In the case of Bangladesh, the DoE has not been recording inspection results in a consistent manner [12], nor sharing the existing data in a transparent way due to internal bureaucracy and pressure from industrial sectors to avoid interference in their business [13].”
§ Water Pollution and the Textile Industry in Bangladesh: Flawed Corporate Practices or Restrictive Opportunities? > Figure 1.
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [12] Belal, 2007, The Views of Corporate Managers on the Current State of, and Future Prospects for, Social Reporting in Bangladesh: An Engagement-Based Study, Account. Audit. Account. J. source
- Supportedcites [13] Haque, 2017, Exploratory Analysis of Fines for Water Pollution in Bangladesh, Water Resour. Ind. source
The Sampling section (2.1) says the DoE does not share complete information on environmental fines because of internal bureaucracy and pressure from the business community. The Discussion section (4) also says the DoE does not maintain a proper database for recording inspections, although the citing sentence attaches a different citation to that clause. (LLM, conf=0.90)
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“installation, engineering maintenance, and chemical refills are currently all outsourced to foreign manufacturers and, hence, the requisite human resources and chemical materials are imported from abroad.”
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“The company sizes vary from a small company with 200 employees to a large one with 10,000 employees, with the mean being 1918.”
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“This was a multiple-choice question, but only half the respondents selected the response”
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“The low willingness of companies to engage in environmental protection activities and inadequate monitoring and enforcement by the government authorities induced the non-compliance of the textile companies.”
§ Water Pollution and the Textile Industry in Bangladesh: Flawed Corporate Practices or Restrictive Opportunities? > 4.1. Institutional Drawbacks
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“foreign buyers tend not to believe in the quality of products (such as ETPs) made in Bangladesh and are not interested in using domestic products.”
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“Based on these results, the major barriers in ETP operation seem to be high running costs and high engineering costs for maintenance.”
§ Water Pollution and the Textile Industry in Bangladesh: Flawed Corporate Practices or Restrictive Opportunities? > 3.3. Barriers to ETP Operation
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“In the case of Bangladesh, so far, no countries have had a ban on importing textile and tannery products from Bangladesh nor tried to provide the technical support as Germany did in the Indian case.”
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“textile companies lack a strong will to protect the environment, but this is not the only the reason for the non-compliance of the whole industry.”
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“Foreign buyers and international society have been applying pressure, but the present situation tells us that it has not been enough.”
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“The major textile domestic companies usually have many subcontractors, most of which are small units and cannot afford ETPs.”
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“companies have to import machines and other resources, which require additional time and money and are viewed as barriers to installing ETPs by the textile companies.”
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“the survey results also revealed many possible drawbacks in the country's institutions that did not motivate companies to comply with the environmental regulations: The high import tax, inadequate monitoring and enforcement by the government authority, and no explicit subsidy scheme (such as the one India institutionalized).”
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“factories cheat and run ETPs just occasionally when the Department of Environment or foreign buyers visit.”
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“Such lack of enforcement is common in developing countries [15], and Bangladesh is no exception.”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [15] Hilson, 2012, Corporate social responsibility in the extractive industries: Experiences from developing countries, Resour. Policy source
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“The full truth is likely worse than depicted because companies with an ETP must be well-off enough to afford ETP installation.”
§ Water Pollution and the Textile Industry in Bangladesh: Flawed Corporate Practices or Restrictive Opportunities? > 3.1. Profile of Samples
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“As such, the penalty for non-compliance is quite inexpensive [20] or even non-existent”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [20] World Bank (2014). The Bangladesh Responsible Sourcing Initiative: A New Model for Green Growth, World Bank. source
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“These companies are relatively big, so this tendency may not apply to small companies.”
§ Water Pollution and the Textile Industry in Bangladesh: Flawed Corporate Practices or Restrictive Opportunities? > 3.3. Barriers to ETP Operation
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“Therefore, the theory concludes that state penalties or subsidies are essential to manage environmental and resource problems.”
§ Water Pollution and the Textile Industry in Bangladesh: Flawed Corporate Practices or Restrictive Opportunities? > 4.1. Institutional Drawbacks
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [24] Hanley, N., Shogren, J.F., and White, B. (1997). Environmental Economics: In Theory and Practice, Oxford University Press. source
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“Those without ETPs were reluctant to participate in the survey and we were not able to collect information from them.So, we note that our data may be biased and does not depict the problem in its entirety.”
§ Water Pollution and the Textile Industry in Bangladesh: Flawed Corporate Practices or Restrictive Opportunities? > 3.1. Profile of Samples
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“Enforcement of the environmental legislation is the responsibility of the Department of the Environment (DoE), but it has failed to govern the situation although it is fully aware of the non-operation of installed ETPs [11].”
§ Water Pollution and the Textile Industry in Bangladesh: Flawed Corporate Practices or Restrictive Opportunities? > Figure 1.
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [11] Moazzem, K.G., and Chowdhury, M.I. (2016). Green Growth in Bangladesh–Improving Regulations, Monitoring and Enforcement in the Textile Sector. (Policy Brief Number 96-16), South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics (SANDEE). Available online: http://www.sandeeonline.org/uploads/documents/publication/1080_PUB_Policy_Brief_96_Mehruna.pdf.
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“We collected answers from 23 textile companies.All these companies are furnished with effluent treatment plants (ETPs).”
§ Water Pollution and the Textile Industry in Bangladesh: Flawed Corporate Practices or Restrictive Opportunities? > 3.1. Profile of Samples
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“Along with the unavailability of ETPs locally, the results suggest that the companies had to choose their ETPs from among limited options and the additional cost due to import fees tends to cause more financial burdens for the companies.”
§ Water Pollution and the Textile Industry in Bangladesh: Flawed Corporate Practices or Restrictive Opportunities? > 3.4. Barriers to ETP Installation
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“This, combined with the fact that ETPs were not available in the local market, resulted in textile companies importing ETPs from abroad.”
§ Water Pollution and the Textile Industry in Bangladesh: Flawed Corporate Practices or Restrictive Opportunities? > 4.1. Institutional Drawbacks
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“There is no doubt that such additional costs are a big barrier which would not exist if ETPs were produced in the country.”
§ Water Pollution and the Textile Industry in Bangladesh: Flawed Corporate Practices or Restrictive Opportunities? > 4.1. Institutional Drawbacks
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“Thus, the minimum number of employees of any company in our sample, 200, was relatively large compared to what is generally considered a small company size.”
§ Water Pollution and the Textile Industry in Bangladesh: Flawed Corporate Practices or Restrictive Opportunities? > 3.1. Profile of Samples
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“In environment-economic theory, pro-environmental behaviour is not considered rational as it is assumed that individuals act to pursue only their own short-term economic benefits [24].”
§ Water Pollution and the Textile Industry in Bangladesh: Flawed Corporate Practices or Restrictive Opportunities? > 4.1. Institutional Drawbacks
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [24] Hanley, N., Shogren, J.F., and White, B. (1997). Environmental Economics: In Theory and Practice, Oxford University Press. source
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“These figures are close to those in Haque [19], where the minimum number of employees was 55, the maximum was 8300, and the mean was 1559.Therefore, our data is not too biased in terms of the company size”
§ Water Pollution and the Textile Industry in Bangladesh: Flawed Corporate Practices or Restrictive Opportunities? > 3.1. Profile of Samples
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [19] Haque, 2018, Revisiting Penalty Functions for Environmental Violations: Evidence from a Developing Country, Water Environ. J. source
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“more than 150 CETPs were established all over India by 2015 under the subsidy scheme [32].”
§ Water Pollution and the Textile Industry in Bangladesh: Flawed Corporate Practices or Restrictive Opportunities? > 4.2. An Indian Comparison
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [32] Central Pollution Control Board (2015). Global Good Practices in Industrial Wastewater Treatment and Disposal/Reuse, with Special Reference to Common Effluent Treatment Plants.
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“It took 10 years after the Water Act was adopted in Tamil Nadu in 1981 until the first CETP began operating-and one to two years after Germany implemented the first ban in 1989-1990.”
§ Water Pollution and the Textile Industry in Bangladesh: Flawed Corporate Practices or Restrictive Opportunities? > 4.2. An Indian Comparison
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“The Indian farmers who made complaints against the tannery industry must have had more political power than the extreme victims in Bangladesh who live in slums along the rivers in Dhaka.”
§ Water Pollution and the Textile Industry in Bangladesh: Flawed Corporate Practices or Restrictive Opportunities? > 4.2. An Indian Comparison
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“But it would not take as long a time as the country has already spent, once the concerned bodies treat the issue seriously.”
§ Water Pollution and the Textile Industry in Bangladesh: Flawed Corporate Practices or Restrictive Opportunities? > 5. Conclusions
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“even though foreign buyers are serious about environmental compliance, those small units may escape their watch.”
§ Water Pollution and the Textile Industry in Bangladesh: Flawed Corporate Practices or Restrictive Opportunities? > 4.3. Towards Effective Environmental Compliance
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“If the government had sought the technology transfer from abroad or any developed countries had offered technical support around the time when the High Court made its first judicial decision in 2001, then at least Savar would not be like it is today.”
§ Water Pollution and the Textile Industry in Bangladesh: Flawed Corporate Practices or Restrictive Opportunities? > 5. Conclusions
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“Because having clean rivers is the accumulated consequence of pro-environmental behavior, it requires the collective action of the whole industry.”
§ Water Pollution and the Textile Industry in Bangladesh: Flawed Corporate Practices or Restrictive Opportunities? > 4.3. Towards Effective Environmental Compliance
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“the government has been taking so long on non-essential remedies that it can be regarded as stalling on the issue.”
§ Water Pollution and the Textile Industry in Bangladesh: Flawed Corporate Practices or Restrictive Opportunities? > 4.3. Towards Effective Environmental Compliance
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“There are fundamental problems in government institutions stemming from their myopic view: The high import tax, infrequent monitoring and enforcement, and no institutionalized subsidy scheme that encourages voluntary central effluent treatment plant construction.”
§ Water Pollution and the Textile Industry in Bangladesh: Flawed Corporate Practices or Restrictive Opportunities? > 4.1. Institutional Drawbacks
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“many small companies will be shut down and many workers will lose their jobs at these factories if the government only strengthens the regulations and does not provide any support to the small companies.”
§ Water Pollution and the Textile Industry in Bangladesh: Flawed Corporate Practices or Restrictive Opportunities? > 4.1. Institutional Drawbacks
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“the subsidy scheme initiated by the Ministry of Environment and Forests in 1991 for CETPs was a great support: 25% of the cost was contributed by each of the central government and state government, 20% came from beneficiaries, and the rest was covered by bank loans [32].”
§ Water Pollution and the Textile Industry in Bangladesh: Flawed Corporate Practices or Restrictive Opportunities? > 4.2. An Indian Comparison
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [32] Central Pollution Control Board (2015). Global Good Practices in Industrial Wastewater Treatment and Disposal/Reuse, with Special Reference to Common Effluent Treatment Plants.
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“in the 1990s, India experienced a similar issue to that which Bangladesh is currently facing.”
§ Water Pollution and the Textile Industry in Bangladesh: Flawed Corporate Practices or Restrictive Opportunities? > 4.2. An Indian Comparison
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“In the Indian case, the penalty, subsidy, and technological transfer worked harmoniously in a short period.”
§ Water Pollution and the Textile Industry in Bangladesh: Flawed Corporate Practices or Restrictive Opportunities? > 4.2. An Indian Comparison
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“India constituted the financial scheme at about the same time that it faced a critical situation, although it took effect 14 years after the Water Act was adopted in the case of Tamil Nadu.”
§ Water Pollution and the Textile Industry in Bangladesh: Flawed Corporate Practices or Restrictive Opportunities? > 4.2. An Indian Comparison
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In the paper
“Improving the quality of the river water is not easy and will take time because it requires the collective action of the whole industry.”
§ Water Pollution and the Textile Industry in Bangladesh: Flawed Corporate Practices or Restrictive Opportunities? > 5. Conclusions
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“All are due to the myopic view of the government in problem solving.”
§ Water Pollution and the Textile Industry in Bangladesh: Flawed Corporate Practices or Restrictive Opportunities? > 5. Conclusions
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“the relocated tannery factories started operation before the completion of the CETP construction, and it was reported that factories were releasing chemicals into the Daleshwari River and dumping toxic waste in open fields [28].”
§ Water Pollution and the Textile Industry in Bangladesh: Flawed Corporate Practices or Restrictive Opportunities? > 4.1. Institutional Drawbacks
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [28] Alam, J., and Mendoza, M. (The Associated Press, 2018). Toxic tanneries forced to move pollute new Bangladesh site, The Associated Press.
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“The complete information about their contribution to the industry may be hard to obtain.”
§ Water Pollution and the Textile Industry in Bangladesh: Flawed Corporate Practices or Restrictive Opportunities? > 5. Conclusions
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“Such an attitude might have hindered the domestic engineering sector from being capable of producing effluent treatment plants (ETPs) on their own.”
§ Water Pollution and the Textile Industry in Bangladesh: Flawed Corporate Practices or Restrictive Opportunities? > 5. Conclusions
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“it was a series of incidents (rather than just one) which provided external and internal pressure to trigger the movement toward environmental compliance.”
§ Water Pollution and the Textile Industry in Bangladesh: Flawed Corporate Practices or Restrictive Opportunities? > 4.2. An Indian Comparison
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“Therefore, external pressure is essential for change.”
- Also stated in: § 5. Conclusions · plain
“We conclude that external pressure is essential for Bangladesh to change.”
§ Water Pollution and the Textile Industry in Bangladesh: Flawed Corporate Practices or Restrictive Opportunities? > 4.2. An Indian Comparison
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In the paper
“In such a situation, the institutionalized monitoring itself would be difficult.”
§ Water Pollution and the Textile Industry in Bangladesh: Flawed Corporate Practices or Restrictive Opportunities? > 5. Conclusions
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“Such a myopic perspective also might have interfered with strengthening the engineering sector for enhancing domestic ETP provision and inducing technology transfer from abroad.”
§ Water Pollution and the Textile Industry in Bangladesh: Flawed Corporate Practices or Restrictive Opportunities? > 4.1. Institutional Drawbacks
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“internal pressure may be unlikely due to the weak political power of the victim citizens and the highly corrupted ecology of the country, ranked 13th lowest on Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index, and which has been more or less the same for the last five years [34].”
§ Water Pollution and the Textile Industry in Bangladesh: Flawed Corporate Practices or Restrictive Opportunities? > 4.2. An Indian Comparison
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [34] The Daily Star (2019, February 13). TI Corruption Index 2018: Bangladesh slips six notches. Available online: https://www.thedailystar.net/country/bangladesh-ranked-149-in-corruption-index-2018-1694437.
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“India would be a good reference because it is adjacent to Bangladesh and has similar resources and socio-economic climate.”
§ Water Pollution and the Textile Industry in Bangladesh: Flawed Corporate Practices or Restrictive Opportunities? > 4.2. An Indian Comparison
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“Following the directives of the court, the government published a plan to create a new tannery industrial complex, Savar, and to shift tannery factories there by December 2005 [25].”
§ Water Pollution and the Textile Industry in Bangladesh: Flawed Corporate Practices or Restrictive Opportunities? > 4.1. Institutional Drawbacks
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [25] Human Rights Watch (2012). Toxic Tanneries: The Health Repercussions of Bangladesh’s Hazaribagh Leather, Human Rights Watch. Available online: https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/bangladesh1012webwcover.pdf.
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“The design for the tannery site in Savar was not approved until April 2013 [26] and in 2017, the government finally began to relocate the tanneries [27].”
§ Water Pollution and the Textile Industry in Bangladesh: Flawed Corporate Practices or Restrictive Opportunities? > 4.1. Institutional Drawbacks
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [26] Roy, P. (2019, February 13). How Long Will It Take?. Available online: https://www.thedailystar.net/frontpage/how-long-will-it-take-209572.
- Not checked yetcites [27] Human Rights Watch (2017). Bangladesh Events for 2017, Human Rights Watch. Available online: https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2018/country-chapters/bangladesh.
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In the paper
“a number of CETPs started functioning in tannery clusters in Tamil Nadu: One in 1991, six in 1995, one in 1996, and four in 1997 [31].”
§ Water Pollution and the Textile Industry in Bangladesh: Flawed Corporate Practices or Restrictive Opportunities? > 4.2. An Indian Comparison
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [31] Sankar, U. (2001). Economic Analysis of Environmental Problems in Tanneries and Textile Bleaching and Dyeing Units and Suggestions for Policy Action, Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd.
plain- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
- Checkable: passes — It can be checked against evidence.
- Load-bearing: unclear — It is unclear whether the paper’s conclusions depend on it.
- Based: passes — The paper gives a reason why it holds.
It may state two separate claims as one.
A conclusion the paper draws from its own results — it cites no other source for it, so there is none to check. The quote shows it is in the paper.
In the paper
“even if the companies bear the cost for environmental protection, they will lose competitive power in the global market due to the price increase that will result from incurring the cost.”
§ Water Pollution and the Textile Industry in Bangladesh: Flawed Corporate Practices or Restrictive Opportunities? > 4.1. Institutional Drawbacks
plainstates a cause- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
- Checkable: passes — It can be checked against evidence.
- Load-bearing: fails — The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it.
- Based: fails — The paper may give no reason why it holds.
Probably not a substantial claim. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it. The paper may give no reason why it holds.
A conclusion the paper draws from its own results — it cites no other source for it, so there is none to check. The quote shows it is in the paper.
In the paper
“it is quite impossible to check the effluent status constantly during factory operation.”
§ Water Pollution and the Textile Industry in Bangladesh: Flawed Corporate Practices or Restrictive Opportunities? > 4.3. Towards Effective Environmental Compliance
plain- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
- Checkable: fails — It may be too vague to check against evidence.
- Load-bearing: passes — The paper’s conclusions depend on it.
- Based: fails — The paper may give no reason why it holds.
Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. The paper may give no reason why it holds.
The authors state this as an assumption.
Individuals act to pursue only their own short-term economic benefits.
“it is assumed that individuals act to pursue only their own short-term economic benefits [24]”
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
Each contradiction between two passages listed here was confirmed by an independent check.
Rated minor: it would not touch a result — a value no result rests on, a p-value that stays on the same side of the significance level, or a conflict that is clerical, resolved elsewhere in the paper, or outside its own findings.
In the paper
§ Water Pollution and the Textile Industry in Bangladesh: Flawed Corporate Practices or Restrictive Opportunities? > 5. Conclusions
“| Quantity of treatment (m 3 /day) | 18 | 747 | 1088 | 4320 | 1200 |”
§ Water Pollution and the Textile Industry in Bangladesh: Flawed Corporate Practices or Restrictive Opportunities? > 5. Conclusions
“| Question | Valid Sample Size | Mean | Standard Deviation | Max | Min |”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Sakamoto, M., Ahmed, T., Begum, S., & Huq, H.
- Affiliations
- The University of Tokyo (JP)
- JADE Bangladesh, House # 66, Road # 08, Niketon, Gulkshan-1, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh
- United International University (BD)
- Corresponding author
- Sakamoto, Maiko
- Venue
- Sustainability
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Published
- 2019-04-02
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 1951
- ISSN
- 2071-1050 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2931958322
- Semantic Scholar
- ec2561b5a702db1a6a38e2dc78eed9788525366b
- Cited by
- 172
- References
- 13
- Citations by year
- 2026: 23 · 2025: 37 · 2024: 27 · 2023: 26 · 2022: 27 · 2021: 23 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 2
- FWCI
- 22.23
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- dx.doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Sustainability (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- SATREPS (Japan Science and Technology agency & JICA) (N.A.)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Public Administration › Regulation and Compliance Studies
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Pollution › Environmental Policies and Emissions
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Marketing › Environmental Sustainability in Business
- Keywords
- textile industry, water pollution, effluent treatment plant, environmental compliance, river pollution, environmental law enforcement, tariffs, subsidy programs, institutional arrangements, corporate environmental practices, Bangladesh
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