Waste Concern  Waste Concern, is an award-winning Bangladesh Social Business Enterprise (SBE) for waste recycling, leading to environmental improvement, renewable energy, and employment generation for the urban poor. Waste Concern was founded in 1996 with the motto "Waste is a Resource". It was established by A.H.Md. Maqsood Sinha, a professional architect-urban planner, and Iftekhar Enayetullah, a civil engineer-urban planner, and currently has 24 professional staffs and 8 consultants. list. The company started out as a decentralised community model for waste recycling to transform the solid waste into organic compost using low cost, low technology and labour-intensive method. It later grew into a Waste Concern Group, comprising both "For Profit" and "Not-for Profit" arms. The work of the group in Bangladesh has led to joint-partnerships with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific (UNESCAP) in replicating the model within ten cities in Asia. As the composting plants are all simple, low cost and labour-intensive, they are suitable to the socio-economic and climatic condition of Bangladesh. The modest sales revenue and low pay-back period further make their model financially viable. In Dhaka, the team from Waste Concern collects rubbish for recycling. This waste is taken to several food processing centres and turned 100 tons of garbage daily into compost. This community-based composting (CBC), in which residents put their food scraps into big composting barrels that sit on concrete bases and can hold up to 400 pounds, has been copied in over 26 cities in Bangladesh. This composting eliminates greenhouse gases produced by rotting garbage, which prompted World Wide Recycling to invest $8 million into Waste Concern's new facilities. Door-to-door surveys and data analysis were used to come up with a business model to convert organic waste to compost. These data garnered were able to inform investors of the feasibility and sustainability of their business. The firm employs impoverished citizens to collect organic waste in the slums and send it to the processing centre. This involves creation of several small-scale enterprises in different neighbourhoods, which acts as part of a de-centralized waste management model. Their operations include house-to-house waste collection, composting of the collected waste by sending them to the composting plants and marketing of the compost and recyclable materials to interested buyers and businesses. According to the founders. this form of community-run operation establishes Waste Concern as an overarching social organisation that not only aims to empower its employees but also, increase their quality of life.