Transforming Waste Into Resources
With funding from the World Food Program and technical support from the waste management company GARBAGEMAN, ICCO is implementing an innovative recycling project in the Rohingya camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.
The project aims to create zero waste designs. It does so by collecting plastic and foil waste produced from the packaging of relief materials. People from the Rohingya community learn – through skills training – how to produce various innovative materials from this waste, like bags, baskets and mats. These items can then be sold so that the Rohingya community can earn an income. What’s more, the Rohingya camps now have a better waste management.
In this way, waste turns into a resource.
Rohingya collecting waste in the camps
Rohingya collecting waste in the camps
Rohingya collecting waste in the camps
Rohingya organising the collected waste
Rohingya transfer the collected waste to the workplace
Items produced from the waste collection