UAE- Huge volunteer turnout at 4th Waste Free Environment event

2/14/2016 8:10:16 AM

(MENAFN- Emirates News Agency (WAM))

DUBAI 14th February 2016 (WAM) -- An estimated 700 volunteers from 14 schools alongside community members came together for a day of educational activities and clean-up of the shores of Dubai Sunset Beach last week as part of the Waste Free Environment campaign.

Supported by the UAE Ministry of Climate Change and Environment and the Dubai Municipality Waste Free Environment is a global initiative hosted by the Gulf Petrochemicals and Chemicals Association each year that reinforces the concept of responsible litter disposal and promotes recycling and its benefits.

Along with Dubai this year's campaign was concurrently held in 13 cities in the GCC India China and the Netherlands. In 2015 WFE gathered over 52 tons of waste collected by over a thousand volunteers in the GCC Europe and India.

"Actions such as reducing reusing recycling and recovering are behaviours that we need to inculcate now as the resources we use to live are finite" explain Dr. Abdulwahab Al-Sadoun Secretary General GPCA. "The problem of litter is ultimately a man-made challenge and by this reasoning the solution will arise out of collective action of communities rather than a single group."

The Dubai leg of WFE was also supported by Suez Environment (formerly Trashco-Sita) and Shell Chemicals. Similar clean-up events in other cities were sponsored by some of the GCC's top petrochemical companies including Borouge Sadara QAPCO and Muntajat among others.

"Since the inception of the WFE in 2011 we have noticed a gradual transformation in perceptions one where people are mindful of the way they dispose waste. And for this we are thankful to our partners volunteers and team who have been instrumental in achieving this positive change" concluded Dr. Al-Sadoun.

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