Diversified Jute Product: EFG Bag

Najmus SAYADAT Environment Friendly Garbage Bag (EFG Bag) EFG Bag is a lowest cost one time use jute bag for transporting garbage to the designated place of City Corporations/ Pourshavas by the household garbage collectors/ large scale garbage generators.
Types of EFG Bag: EFG Bag-B (Biodegradable) EFG Bag-R (Recycle)

EFG Bag-B

EFG Bag-R

Size and design of the EFG Bag: Size: Height 36 inches (including border) Width 48 inches (including border)

Design:

48 inches

Application of EFG Bag: Garbage disposal system of Dhaka city is very special due to mainly high rise building and the systems of City Corporations garbage collection systems. In Dhaka city, community based organizations, NGOs, small business entrepreneurs are involved in collecting household garbage from door to door with a open van. After collecting household garbage these micro-enterprise desegregate the garbage into two: biodegradable and recyclable. After that they keep the garbage in the designated place of the City Corporation open for collecting Corporations Cleanliness worker to be collected by their open/ closed truck. Besides, some microenterprises dump garbage directly at the garbage disposal place and collect money from the City Corporation. Moreover, City Corporation has also a plan to establish an incineration plant through using biodegradable garbage collected in this way. In this above perspective, the number of enterprises/ business entity involved is known by the City Corporation. So, it is possible to introduce EFG Bag to them and implement the decision of using EFG Bag for keeping the garbage at the designated place by them. Besides these organizations, big supermarkets, hotels, restaurants, offices also dump garbage in open place designated by the Corporation. City Corporation can also introduce EFG Bag to them to be used it in their garbage disposal system. Thus City Corporation has a role as a catalyst in using EFG Bag. BJMC needs to know the amount of demand of such bags as well production possibility at the lowest cost. Jute goods are mainly export oriented which are under continuous risk due to economic slowdown and political turmoil in importing countries. Thus we need to devise mechanism for creating a strong base in internal market. Introducing EFG Bag nationwide is just one step to strengthen the internal market for jute goods. It is 2

expected that this option would create an increasing demand for raw jute and the jute farmers do not have to face uncertainty and loss in future. In case of India, the largest jute grower is also considering use of this type of bag. Recently, Steering Committee for Growth and Development of Technical Textiles (SC GDTT) of India already identified the potentials of jute based garbage disposal bags/garbage covers.

Implementing Agency: City Corporations / Pourshovas Implementation method: Initially, Chairman BJMC will write a DO letter to the Administrator, Dhaka North City Corporation and Dhaka South City Corporation informing the importance of using EFG Bag for garbage disposal system in their jurisdiction and requesting to help implement the use of EFG Bag by the small garbage collectors/ large garbage generators. A sample of such one time low cost will be accompanied with the DO letter. An explicit expectation from the City Corporation will be to get an idea about prospective demand for EFG Bag. This information might help in deciding about production volume by nationwide jute mills. Later on, all the City Corporations, Pourshavas and Upzilla towns will be included in this process.

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