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A Bangladeshi woman works in a plastic bottle recycling factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, May 14, 2024. Workers are sorting discarded plastic bottles collected from the garbage heap and preparing them for recycling. These bottles are cleaned and cut into pieces by a cutting machine. There, new products are made from these pieces of plastic. According to the Environment Department of Bangladesh, about 24 thousand tons of waste is produced every day in the country. Of this 7.35 percent waste are plastic materials, which is 1,700 tones. Only 50 percent of these plastic wastes are recyclable