Area 5

Responsible handling of wastewater and solid waste is widely ignored by MSMES in Myanmar. RBF has created awareness about the long-term benefits of environmentally responsible waste management and investment in waste-water treatment facilities.
In the waste recycling area, RBF has provided grants to businesses for establishing projects that convert waste into value-added products. Examples of support include the production of organic fertilizers and animal feed from agricultural waste; and biomass boiler, burners, dryers from waste rice husks.

Under this area, RBF Myanmar also supported the Waste Water Treatment Plant (WWTP) to individual businesses and helped establish Myanmar’s first cooperative central WWTPs by a group of leather tanneries in Mandalay and a cluster of vermicelli and leather businesses in Monywa.