ECO-friendly brick kilns to come
The government, under a five-year project, aims to introduce a new technology in the country's brick making industry to reduce environmental pollution and make energy consumption efficient.
Speakers said this at the project's inception workshop organised by the project's sponsor UNDP Bangladesh at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the city yesterday.
The project aims at replacing the 150-year-old energy-intensive conventional brick with an energy-efficient and smokeless technology named Hybrid-Hoffman Kiln.
Styled by Improving Kiln Efficiency in the Brick Making Industry (IKEBMI), the $ 3 million project will be a climate change mitigation step in Bangladesh to prevent emission of greenhouse gases, deforestation and land degradation caused by the traditional brick fields, said Stefan Priesner, UNDP Bangladesh resident representative.
IKEBMI Project Manager Khondoker Neaz Rahman said nearly 5,000 conventional fixed-chimney brick kilns across the country emit an estimated 6.4 million tonnes of Carbon Dioxide annually. "Firewood constitutes one-third of the total fuel consumed in the industry, significantly causing deforestation and land degradation," he said.
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