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Should Abu Dhabi build its own recycling plant or send its recyclable material elsewhere?
- Last Updated: November 07. 2009 1:21AM UAE / November 6. 2009 9:21PM GMT
As Abu Dhabi’s reprocessing programme gets under way, officials admit there are no facilities to deal with some of the waste.
Should Abu Dhabi build its own recycling plant or send its recyclable material elsewhere?
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Added: 11/16/09 08:08:00 PM
I think the correct expression is "reduce, reuse, recycle" NOT Reduce, reuse, recycle and pawn your waste off on someone else." If this country is to be a leader in green and renewable energy, it just makes sense that the UAE use the same determination used to create F1 tracks, modern museums and carbon-free cities to create a world-class recycling system.
Donald Glass, Abu Dhabi
Added: 11/11/09 03:30:00 PM
From an environmental point of view it has to be here - shipping recycling material overseas is an additional waste of resources. The need for recycling is there, even more so the need for reducing waste. Educatin masses is fine, but with the cultural mix of th epopulation the awareness is just not there. The most effective way to make masses do what they are supposed to do is applying incentives and fines - for both commercial and private waste producers.
Eva Deutschland, Dubai
Added: 11/10/09 05:00:00 PM
Great idea, and as other readers have and will comment, it has to be the only way to go, but it will fail miserably!!!
Why ? Until you can get people here in Abu Dhabi to stop dropping litter (and kittens) out of car windows, to stop them tailgating cars at speed (thus creating fresh waste of damaged car bumpers) and all responsible and accountable drivers can queue maturely at traffic lights (rather than jump the Q and bottle neck the entire process), then I am very sorry to say, all such good environmental ideas will mutate and fester !!!
Roland Blaney, Abu Dhabi
Added: 11/08/09 09:17:00 PM
There is no need for discussion. The world resources are finite and as such recycling ought to be part of any culutre. There has to be two prong approach to this 1. Educating the mass about need to recylce accompanied with feasible solution for the public depositing recyclble materials. 2. reprocessing plant outside each major locality with sizable population. Germany has led this and now the whole of Europe is follwoing suite. In UK we have one deposite box for plastics and matalic cans and a bag for paper. They collect and return these on a weekly basis. There is a culture of responsibility in UK and untill this is instilled either by insentive or by penalty. The Green economy is not just about providing enegy from renwable source but also about the life style of people living in the country.
Joe Blog, london
Added: 11/07/09 07:34:00 PM
From my point of view yes it should, although the recycling plant will cost a lot of money but at the end it will be much easier for the Center or Waste Management as well as it is the benefit of Abu Dhabi city.
Sharifa Al Adawi, Abu Dhabi