# Aquafeed.com |
   

   
    BANGLADESH: SC shut down plants using tannery waste in animal feeds

> Bangladesh's Supreme Court upheld a High Court ruling ordering the closure of factories in Dhaka's Hazaribagh area that use toxic tannery waste to produce poultry and fish feed. The practice began about 10 years ago as imported protein prices rose.

- Date: 2016-12-08 · published 2016-12-08T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: policy · region Bangladesh · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/73601-aquafeed-com-bangladesh-sc-shut-down-plants-using-tannery-waste-in-animal-feeds
- Commodities: [Meat & Bone Meal](https://feedsoft.ai/c/MBM.md), [Fishmeal](https://feedsoft.ai/c/FISHMEAL.md)

## Why it matters

Removing a low-cost tannery-waste protein source could tighten local supply of feed protein and push Bangladeshi feed producers toward imported meat and bone meal and fishmeal. The effect on world prices is small given the local scale.

## Read by commodity

- MBM: bullish ▲
- FISHMEAL: bullish ▲

## Sources

- aquafeed.com: https://www.aquafeed.com/newsroom/news/bangladesh-sc-shut-down-plants-using-tannery-waste-in-animal-feeds/

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