YANGON, March 5 (Reuters) – From a distance, ChuChu Design, a single-storey building across the river from Myanmar’s bustling commercial capital, looks like any other on the impoverished outskirts of the city. But on closer inspection, the roof has been fashioned from old tyres, the walls are made of glass bottles and the lampshades from […]
The business of plastic waste
January 21, 2020 by
Plastic products are both a convenience and a curse but some innovative businesses in Yangon are striving to reduce their impact on the environment. FROM THE packaging of food to the outfitting of cars, plastic is essential to modern life. Its use accelerated rapidly after World War One, though the first man-made plastic material, Parkesine, […]
Monywa to produce electricity and fertilizer from waste
July 8, 2019 by
The Japanese corporation Fujita is conducting a feasibility study on implementing production of electricity and fertilizer from waste in Monywa, according to Kyaw Myo Win, chairman of Monywa Township Municipal Committee. The Osaka based Zaibatsu will provide 40 percent through its Myanmar branch while the remaining 60 percent will be provided by the regional government. […]
RecyGlo cleans up in recycling
March 15, 2019 by
Coloured waste bins line the walls of RecyGlo’s office in Yangon. Blue is for paper, red for plastic, green for aluminium and black for general waste. The waste is being separated for recycling. “If the plastic, glass and cans that we discard daily are not systematically sorted, recycled and reused, it will have an impact […]
Japanese Firm Receives Order for First Waste Incineration Power Plant in Myanmar
November 24, 2015 by
Subscribe to our tender alert mailing list JFE Engineering Corporation said that the company has received an order for the first waste incineration power plant in Myanmar. The plant will be constructed in Shwe Pyi Thar Industrial Zone in Yangon using the bilateral Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM) between Myanmar and Japan. JCM is a bilateral […]
