Building safer and greener tanneries: Lessons from Savar

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Building safer, greener tanneries - lessons from Savar

People working and living around the Savar Tannery Estate in Bangladesh face serious social and environmental human rights impacts that if not addressed will continue to limit the potential of tanneries and the Bangladesh leather sector as whole. 

This learning paper shares key endline findings from the ‘Improving environmental and social conditions in the Savar Tannery Estate’ project, undertaken by the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI), ETI Bangladesh, the Bangladesh Labour Foundation (BLF) and Mondiaal FNV as part of the UK government-funded Sustainable Manufacturing and Environmental Pollution (SMEP) Programme.

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Sustainable Manufacturing and Environmental Pollution

Hands feed raw leather through a press. Photo credit: Bangladesh Labour Foundation.
Improving environmental and social conditions in the Tannery Industrial Estate in Savar, Bangladesh
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