Sun 01 October 2020:
Dubai has unveiled significant new environmental and sustainability initiatives worth AED 6.6 billion ($1.785 billion) including a project to build the Dubai Center for Waste Processing in the Warsan area of Dubai.
The AED 4 billion ($1.08 billion) plant, one of the largest in the world in terms of waste processing capacity. Capable of processing 5,666 tonnes of municipal solid waste per day and 1.9 million tonnes of municipal solid waste per year, it also has the capacity to generate 200 megawatts of energy annually, which service 135,000 residences.
The first phase of the project will be completed in 2023 and the entire project will be completed in 2024.
Director General of Dubai Municipality Dawood Al Hajri briefed Dubai’s ruler on the new plant that is one of the Emirate’s largest infrastructure projects. Created to serve the emirate’s current and future waste management and green energy requirements, the project consists of a waste weighing unit, 15 reception points, five furnaces, a steam and power generation zone, 10,000 gas processing units, 27 gates and a zone for extracting metal from incinerated waste.
Sheikh Mohammed was also briefed on an AED500 million project to develop public beaches in Dubai. The project aims to develop one million square metres of beachfront area from Al Mamzar beach to Umm Suqeim.
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