Waste Concern receives Clean Dhaka Ward Contest Award 2008 from Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) new
MoU signed between American International School Dhaka and Waste Concern new
Organic Cotton Produced for The First Time In Bogra, Bangladesh (March 26, 2008) new
Recycling Training Center Starts Operation from March 5, 2008 Katchpur, Dhaka
Workshop on Community Based Composting Initiative in Kushtia Pourashava February 10, 2008
Replication of
Waste Concern’s Composting Model in Vietnam & Sri Lanka &
Regional Seminar & Study Visit on Community-based Solid Waste Management
(15- 16 December, 2007), Quy Nhon City, Vietnam
Seminar on Solid
Waste Management in Bangladesh
Organized by Chemical Engineering Division, The Institute of Engineers,
Bangladesh and Waste Concern (November 22, 2007)
Seminar on Cleaner Production Using Environmental Management System (EMS)
Waste Concern Receives Environment Award 2007
Source Separation of Waste Launched in Uttara, Dhaka on June 2, 2007
A case study on Waste Concern to
be showcased at Climate Summit, New York City 2007
for more information pl. visit
http://www.nycclimatesummit.com/casestudies/waste/waste_dhaka.html
Advanced Environment
Management System (EMS) Auditing Course
A capacity building training on Certified Lead Auditors Course on
ISO-14001:2004 has been successfully completed during March 5 to 9 2007.
National 3R Workshop
(27-28 February 2007, Dhaka,
Bangladesh)
A 2 (two) day long Workshop was jointly organized by Waste Concern in
partnership with the Department of Environment (DoE), Ministry of
Environment and Forest of the Government of Bangladesh and the United
Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD)in Japan.
Co-founders of Waste
Concern Invited as Guest Speakers
By the IESE, Business
School, University of Navarra, Barcelona, Spain
On January 25, 2007, both the co-founders of Waste Concern, Mr. A. H. Md.
Maqsood Sinha and Mr Iftekhar Enayetullah were invited by the IESE, Business
School of the University of Navarra, Barcelona, Spain as special guest
speakers to share their experience with the MBA students and faculties.
Case Study On Waste Concern by Stanford University Graduate School of
Business
Graduate School of Business of the Stanford University has prepared a case
study on Waste Concern.
Second CDM Project from Bangladesh Registered with the CDM Executive board of the United Nations
The second CDM project from Bangladesh entitled “ Composting of Organic Waste in Dhaka” has been registered with the CDM-Executive Board on May 18, 2006. Mentionably, this is the first composting project using CDM globally.
Waste Management and Recycling in Bangladesh
UNDP is co-sponsoring the Environmentally Sound Technologies (EST) Showcase
which is running parallel to the 9th Special Session of the UNEP Governing
Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum 2006 in Dubai. One of the
projects that is being showcased is Waste Concern. Waste Concern has won
First Clinic and Agro-based Industry Receives ISO 14001 Certificate with the
Technical Assistance from Waste Concern
The ISO-14001 certificate was given to the country’s two private companies
in the health and agriculture sectors for complying with international
environmental management standards (EMS).
Faces for the Future
Maqsood Sinha & Iftekhar
Enayetullah, Garbiologists
The New age New Year Special 2006
They prefer the term ‘garbiologists’, but before Maqsood and Iftehkar revolutionised waste collection and recycling in the capital, friends often jokingly referred to them as ‘garbage men’.
Two CDM Projects from Bangladesh Presented at COP-11/MOP-1
held on Tuesday, December 6, 2005 at 3:00 to 15:00 at the Palais des Congres
in Montreal, Canada during the UNFCCC COP11/MOP1
Waste Concern was invited by the secretariat of UNFCCC to show case its experience related to CDM based projects in a side event during the conference. Ms. Sushma Gera, Chairman of CDM Executive Board along with Mr. Richard Kinley, Officer-in-Charge UNFCCC Secretariat graced the event with their presence.
Methodology on Avoided Emissions From Organic Waste Composting Approved by UNFCCC’s CDM Executive Board
CDM Executive Board in its 21st meeting approved the methodology on Avoided Emissions from Organic Waste Composting ( AM 0025) prepared by World Wide Recycling of Netherlands and Waste Concern of Bangladesh. Full details of methodology is available on following web site: http://cdm.unfccc.int/UserManagement/FileStorage/CDMWF_AM_QJCPKAZRERN51P0POBMSLKXUSMZN5M
First CDM Project
from Bangladesh Registered
The first ever CDM project from Bangladesh has been registered with
the UNFCCC on September 17, 2005. The project has jointly been
prepared by Waste Concern of Bangladesh and World Wide Recycling of
the Netherlands.It is only the 20th project to be approved to date
by the CDM Executive Board, and in size it is in the top 10 of
largest projects. The details of the project are available in the
following web site:
http://cdm.unfccc.int/Projects/registered.html
Ms. Janet Museveni,
First Lady of Uganda, paid a visit to Waste Concern
Ms.
Janet Museveni, First Lady of Uganda, paid a visit to Waste
Concern’s Community Based
Composting Project in Dhaka along with her delegation on June 7,
2005
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MOU signed by Waste Concern and WWR
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