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Bee’ah And Sharjah City Municipality Sign A 20-Year Contract Agreement To Enhance Environmental Change











Bee’ah – the UAE’s leading integrated environmental and waste management company – and the Sharjah City Municipality announced the signing of a 20 year agreement to provide waste management services across Sharjah.

The agreement – signed by Mr. Khaled Al Huraimel, the Chief Executive Officer of Bee’ah, and Mr. Sultan Al Mualla, the Director-General of the Sharjah City Municipality, in the presence of His Excellency Salim Bin Mohammed Al Owais, Chairman of Bee’ah – cements a formal long-term working arrangement which will see Bee’ah manage landfill site operations for the next 20 years.

Alongside this agreement, Tandeef, the street cleaning and city beautification arm of Bee’ah, was commissioned to provide services for the City of Sharjah for a period of 15 years to ensure a cost-effective and environmentally sound solid waste collection and city beautification service to all the residents.

Under the agreement Bee’ah will further not only be responsible for waste collection and re-use of materials which would otherwise be disposed of in landfills, but will also be required to introduce further recycling initiatives while encouraging international standards of waste source separation and recycling practices.

H.E. Al Owais has hailed the agreement as vindication of all Bee’ah staff efforts whose individual responsibilities culminated each day in the improvement of the quality of life in, and the greening of, Sharjah.

He said that Bee’ah’s long-term strategy for growth would position the company as the leader of environmental change not only in Sharjah, but beyond the emirate’s borders as well. Thus he believed the current agreement was a step closer to reaching that vision.

H.E. Al Owais alluded that Bee’ah is currently in the process of finalising and signing agreements to take over the management and operations of the landfills in the eastern provinces of the Emirate of Sharjah, and is potentially looking into expansion plans to other emirates. Bee’ah would also launch a Residential Recycling Programme this year, and would distribute green and blue bins in homes across Sharjah. Linked to this, the company would also purchase new equipment to transport the recyclables collected via these bins.

Commenting on the working agreement, Mr. Al Mualla said: “The provision of dependable waste collection and its disposal, as well as a reliable street cleaning service, is vital to the health and well-being of residents of the City of Sharjah.

“Based on Bee’ah’s impressive qualifications and track record during its short history which is marked by many milestones, as well as the international best practices and the practicable infrastructure already being implemented by Bee’ah, it is in the best interest of the Sharjah City and its residents that we charged Bee’ah with this responsibility.”

Al Mualla added that in addition to Bee’ah’s committed and innovative methods of dealing with waste and environmental challenges arising in Sharjah, the company was also doing a great deal in terms of environmental education among all spheres of society to ensure that the emirate remained a shining example of a people who took to heart the future of the planet.

Mr. Al Huraimel said the commitment from both Bee’ah and the Sharjah Government to the green movement, presented environmentally aware investors with blossoming opportunities in the emirate – and beyond.

According to him, Bee’ah’s commitment to the environment and to economic prosperity was both an operational imperative and an ethical principle.

Bee’ah’s challenge remained the continuous development of systems and implementation of infrastructure needed to address particular environmental problems, while at the same time promoting the economy.

“Bee’ah addresses this in many ways: the most obvious is by taking action as efficiently as possible through the use of private sector management techniques. The most positive impact is turning the present waste stream into new input resources for the economy,” Al Huraimel said.

The agreement just concluded would ensure a sustainable economy and environmental education throughout Sharjah.

He explained that remarkable achievements were reached at the Waste Management Complex (WMC) in Al Saj’ah in regard to the recovery of recyclable material which can be ploughed back into the local economy.

The WMC, of which the operations were taken over from the Municipality by Bee’ah in 2009, accommodated state-of-the-art facilities which operated along best international practices. The WMC houses the Material Recovery Facility (MRF), the Construction and Demolition Waste Recycling Facility (CDW), the Tyre Recycling Facility, and Wekaya (a medical waste facility) – and many more.

The MRF – the largest such facility in the Middle East and among the largest in the world – receives mixed solid waste, sorted recyclable material in different streams (such as paper, cardboard, plastic, glass – to name a few) and then recovered material for re-use. About 1,200 tons of waste was processed daily at the MRF during the third quarter of 2010.

More than 6,000 tons of construction waste made up of concrete, bricks, wood, insulation and asphalt, was processed daily at Bee’ah’s CDW. Much of this waste was broken down under great pressure and processed for re-use as aggregate for roads, pavements and walkways.

Bee’ah’s TRF – the first of its kind in the region – was in process of recycling the some 4,000 tyres arriving at Sharjah’s landfills daily. It was one of the few facilities in the world using a 100% environmentally friendly cryogenics process to turn old tyres into crumb rubber which is used for flooring products. It also produces asphalt rubber used in many countries to build roads.

Bee’ah, headquartered in Sharjah, was launched in 2007 as a public private company in partnership with the Sharjah City Municipality. The company was called into being through an Emiri decree issued by Member of the Supreme Council of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Sharjah, His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan Bin Mohammed Al Qasimi. Since then, Bee’ah has grown from a three-person team to a business that boasts an operation of 2,000 employees, and assets under management of AED 4 billion.

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