The world's second biggest exporter of clothes, Bangladesh, is looking to technology to gain control of the fashion industry's other major product: textile waste. Cloud-hosted software allows manufacturers to segregate, label and register waste on a digital platform and track it as it passes between factories, handlers and recyclers.

Rizvan Hasan is the country lead of Reverse Resources, a company that produces the software.

"Reverse Resources is bridging Bangladesh's waste streams with international recyc...