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Dubai homes get coloured bins for recycling

Nearly 4000 homes in Dubai will be given colour-coded waste bins as part of a new initiative of the Dubai Municipality to start waste segregation and recycling from the source.

Nearly 4000 homes in Dubai will be given colour-coded waste bins as part of a new initiative of the Dubai Municipality to start waste segregation and recycling from the source.

Senior officials of the Municipality on Tuesday announced that the project will begin with three housing colonies under Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Housing Establishment. Each home will be given two bins and residents will be asked to dispose organic waste (mainly food) in the black-coloured bin and the remaining in the green one.

The civic body, which will mark the official launch of the pro-recycling campaign on March 1, plans to extend the initiative to other communities and locations in the emirate at later phases, saidAbdulmajeed Abdulaziz Al Saifaie, the director ofWasteManagementDepartment.

Director General of Dubai Municipality Hussain Nasser Lootah andAssistant Director General for Environment and Public Health Services Sector at Dubai Municipality Salah AbdulRahman Amiri said each resident of the emirate should shoulder the responsibility of taking care of the environment and hence, should strive for contributing to the recycling initiatives of the civic body.

Lootah said that this initiative is a community based service, providing two types of waste bins for each house in three areas of the emirate of Dubai as an experimental stage of the project for one year. ‘We have selected three private companies namely, Emdad, Averda, Dulsco to distribute the waste bins and collect the waste from the residences directly on daily basis,’ he said.

Salah Amiri noted that the companies will take care of all activities of the initiative competing each other to get the best result out of the experimental stage from the three areas in Dubai, which are Mizhar 1, Mizhar 2 and Nadd Al Hammar considering them as the most convenient areas for the experimental stage. If the experimental stage is successful the civic body will implement the new system in the entire emirate with immediate effect, officials said.

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