Waste not, want not at Rohingya refugee camps

ASIA TIMES

By Michael Hayes, Kutupalong

A promotional sign for the Kutupalong refugee camp‘s new waste management plant, the largest of its type in the world, February 2019. Photo: Michael Hayes

There are those who will argue that this story wreaks like a bowel movement but someone has to do it. And so do the roughly 900,000 Rohingya refugees stuck in camps in Bangladesh, every day.

On February 1, aid agency OXFAM and UNHCR opened the Centralized Fecal Sludge Management Plant (CFSMP) at Bangladesh’s Kutupalong refugee camp, the largest such fecal waste plant in any refugee camp on the planet.