Environmental impact on green industrialization of Bangladesh

Abstract

The main objective of the study was to determine and describe the environmental impact on green industrialization of Bangladesh. It was measured by computing change in building and structural integrity of  factory, water and water re use, work place environment and safety, transport and source of energy, factors  affected in green industry, operational and maintenance cost of factory and their contribution towards Green industry of the respondents after their involvement with green industry development activities. Data were collected from a sample of randomly selected 58 factories in Dhaka, Narayanganj and chattogram District from April 2019 to July 2019. The standardized partial ‘b’ co-efficient of the above 14 independent variables formed the equation contributing to 51.8 per cent of the total variation in green industry. The average building and structural integrity of the RMG entrepreneurs increased 3.095, water and water re use in the green industry of the RMG entrepreneurs increased 3.071, work place environment and safety in the green industry of RMG entrepreneurs increased 2.304, transport and source of energy in the green industry of RMG entrepreneur  increased  2.548 and factors affected in green industry of the RMG entrepreneurs increased 7.182 after involvement of green industrialization activities. Findings indicate that in building and structural integrity of the factory, water and water re use, work place environment and safety, transport and source of energy, factors  affected in green industry, operational and maintenance cost of the factory and Their Contribution Towards Green industry of the respondents increased significantly due to participation with green industrialization.