Bangladesh's garment factories generate 330,000–500,000 tonnes of cutting waste every year — and only 5–7% is recycled domestically. JhutPass adds what the jhut economy is missing: a grading standard, a network of optimally-sited sorting hubs, and digital certificates that make every kilogram traceable, tradeable, and ready for the EU's Digital Product Passport era.
Try the live demo How it worksJhut — pre-consumer garment waste — is not scarce; certainty about it is. No grading standard, no chain of custody, no certificates. Factories can't prove what they wasted, recyclers can't prove what they bought, and buyers can't verify anything.
Ungraded jhut sells at low-band prices because buyers price in quality risk. Graded, certified lots earn premiums.
From ~2027 the EU DPP makes verified material data a market-access condition for textiles. Unverifiable waste = unverifiable recycled content.
The informal collection-sorting chain has no contracts, IDs, or finance access — and formal recycling risks displacing it (Circular Economy & Sustainability, 2026).
JhutPass is not another marketplace. Marketplaces list waste; we make waste legible. We are the trust layer the whole market trades on.
DPP-ready certificates, buyer ESG audit reports, and cluster-level waste-flow dashboards — the "national jhut database" recommended by GIZ, running privately from day one.
Certified bales flow to domestic recyclers and spinners — interoperating with existing marketplaces and brand-driven trackers rather than competing with them.
Micro-hubs sited by p-median optimization over factory clusters (weighted average factory→hub distance ≈ 13 km in our network model). Existing informal yards convert as franchisees — the informal chain becomes the formal chain.
The Bangladesh Fiber Grade scale (BF-1…BF-5): a published grading rubric, a low-cost physical kit, and a mobile app that registers waste points, weights, photos, and chain-of-custody at the source.
Working prototype of the JhutPass decision layer. Numbers below use the same conservative assumptions as our Monte Carlo simulation (20,000 trials).
Grade-mix weighted price 31.9 BDT/kg from BF-1…BF-5 mix (55/42/30/18/7 BDT/kg at 14/26/30/20/10%) minus BDT 2.9/kg JhutPass fees. Unsorted price band 20–30 BDT/kg (illustrative).
Illustrative network model — clusters represent real production geographies (Gazipur, Savar–Ashulia, Narayanganj, Chattogram…); weighted avg factory→hub distance ≈ 13 km.
Demo certificate rendered client-side for illustration — not a production credential. Production certificates are mass-balance based and verifiable against hub audit records.
BDT 1.5/kg (≈0.4–0.6% of bale value). Hub executes, JhutPass scores.
BDT 500 per certified lot. The audit-saving + premium-capture instrument.
BDT 2,000/mo factory waste ledger; buyer & partner dashboards at $250–500/mo.
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Profit P10 / P50 / P90 | +0.08M / +0.99M / +1.18M BDT |
| Probability of profitable year | 92% (15% adoption-stall scenario modeled) |
| Throughput P50 | ≈1,710 t graded/yr |
| Certificates P50 | ≈4,370 /yr |
| Hub conversion cost (one-off) | BDT 0.4M |
Full assumptions in the project simulation pack (simulation/hub_economics.py). Fees are 0.4–0.6% of bale value — priced to be invisible next to the 10–25 BDT/kg grading premium.
| Year | Hubs | Tonnes graded/yr | % of national stream | Value retained (M USD/yr) | Formalized jobs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y1 | 3 | 4,500 | 1.1% | 0.35 | 29 |
| Y2 | 8 | 12,000 | 2.9% | 0.92 | 78 |
| Y3 | 16 | 24,000 | 5.8% | 1.85 | 156 |
| Y4 | 28 | 42,000 | 10.1% | 3.23 | 274 |
| Y5 | 45 | 67,500 | 16.3% | 5.19 | 441 |
Value retained = graded/certified domestic price premium over raw-export price (illustrative differential, BDT→USD ≈ 117). Environmental effect is reported as tonnes diverted from raw export, open burning and landfill; South Asia accounts for 37% of global open-burning textile emissions (Environ. Sci. & Pollution Research, 2026). We do not invent CO₂-per-kg factors.