Accelerating State's efforts to preserve the environment in many ways, the Ministry of Municipality is operating the largest facility for waste management in the Middle East which produces 50 megawatt electricity a day.
“The Domestic Solid Waste Management Centre in Mesaieed is also producing organic fertilisers in large quantity which are being distributed to government projects to increase the greenery and landscapes across the country,” said Director of Waste Recycling and Management at the Ministry of Municipality, Hamad Al Bahr.
In a statement, posted on the twitter account of the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, Hamad Al Bahr said that field operation of waste management system focused on removing, sorting out, managing and recycling the wastes to reduce the wastes taken to sanitary landfills.
Director of Waste Recycling and Management at the Ministry of Municipality, Hamad Al Bahr said that Center for Waste Management helped greatly in protecting the environment.
Under its multiple goals, Qatar National Environment and Climate Change Strategy targetes a circular economy and waste management by enhance critical infrastructure for sustainable waste management and drive more circular use of materials.
To do so, Qatar seeks to close and rehabilitate 100% of unsanitary landfills and achieve a 15% material recycling rate of municipal wastes amongst other targets.
The Department of Waste Recycling and Management made remarkable achievements in waste management and recycling by implementing a number of projects successfully last year.
According to a report issued in March this year, the Waste Management Center had recycled large quantity of wastes into usable materials such as organic fertilizer, biogas, electricity, iron and plastic in 2020. The center produced 30,202 tonnes of green manure, 33,180,890 cubic meters of biogas and 268,776 megawatt of electricity from waste management and recycling.
The center also produced 5,315.06 tonnes of plastic materials, 13,631.84 tonnes of iron, and 5,315 tonnes of iron-free materials. During the period of study, the Department of Waste Recycling and Management also issued 14,501 electronic permits to remove waste of all kinds including 5,404 permits to remove construction waste, 8,273 permits to remove solid and organic waste, and 824 permits to remove tires, and 111 paper permits to remove the organic waste that is sent to Waste Management Center.
In addition, 419,000 tonnes of recycled construction materials were produced in Rawdat Rashid Landfill last year. A total of 47 plots of of land were allocated for establishing recycling factories, which will have a positive and significant impact on increasing the recycling rate, in line with Qatar National Vision 2030.
These efforts come within the framework of working to raise public awareness about the importance of recycling, and to reduce the use of one-time materials that pollute the environment.
