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By Md. Tahmid Zami
NARAYANGANJ, Bangladesh, June 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As pale fumes billowed from a factory in the Bandar neighbourhood of Narayanganj, clouding the afternoon sky, tea-stall owner Riad, 21, explained how dust and other pollution from local industries is harming crops and residents' wellbeing.
"People here suffer from respiratory and health problems," he said. "At night, noise and shaking caused by the local power plant disturb people's sleep."
Narayanganj city - a major industrial hub just to the south of Dhaka that produces most of the country's knitwear exports - has the third-worst air quality in Bangladesh, according to a survey last year by Stamford University.
Manufacturing and construction, meanwhile, account for 58% of the city's planet-warmi...