GREEN CITY
Qatar cares about its environment and is going all out to ensure it protects the environment, especially with the steady incline of its industrial growth, its ever-growing economy that is one of the fastest in the world and the growth of its population. This equates to large amounts of waste matter which may be in the form of industrial and municipal waste, construction and demolition flotsam and jetsam. It would not be wrong to say that, today, Qatar’s yearly solid waste production is more than 2.5 million tons, which equals approximately 7,000 tons a day (now, that’s a lot).
Environmental preservation in Qatar
Recycling is a big focus of Qatar’s agenda to protect the environment and has already identified that better waste management is a necessity.​To achieve better waste management, the government of Qatar is trying to decrease the amount of waste that is produced by industries, commercial sites and households and also recycle whatever can be recycled.
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Qatar is encouraging organisations to export their recycled items and all manufacturing companies to adopt the use of recycled products and material.It is also running different public awareness campaigns and activities to encourage recycling within the general public and to see recycling as a duty that must be performed, improving collection networks and placing recycling dustbins at strategic locations around the country.Through awareness, locals and expats are learning about the 3Rs and getting together to reduce waste generation and participate in recycling so waste.
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