They collect discarded bottles from streets, yet get little recognition from companies or society; LEEDO works to protect them, rebuild their lives through education, care.
They move through Dhaka’s streets largely unnoticed, searching roadsides, drains, and piles of waste for discarded plastic bottles.
Some are children living on the streets. For them, an empty PET bottle is not simply rubbish. It can be collected, carried in a sack, and sold to a junk shop for a small amount of money.
Street children of Bangladesh are playing a great role by collecting those bottles and helping in the recycling process. They are protecting the environment. But actually, there is no one to look after these children.
Forhad Hossain Founder and Executive Director of LEEDO
From there, the bottles pass through a longer recycling chain, eventually reaching factories where they are processed into flakes for export and recycling.
