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Companies will have to pay a fee for any kind of waste material they dump in the emirate of Abu Dhabi. (FILE)
Abu Dhabi has imposed a waste management fee to be levied from all establishments that generate any kind of waste in the emirate.
The new scheme covers all industrial, commercial establishments and includes construction activities, Arabic language daily Al Bayan reported on Monday.
The decision announced by the Abu Dhabi Centre of Waste Management aims at reducing waste generation and regularising waste disposal.
The fee charged will be based on the amount of waste generated by each establishment every year.
Besides reducing waste generation, the fee system is expected to encourage waste recycling and re-usage of materials otherwise disposed.
Experts at the centre predicted the programme titled Nadhafa to help reduce waste, including construction waste, which is set to be 13,000 tonnes per day in 2011.
The centre also confirmed its plans to encourage waste recycling at plants they can set up. A plant to recycle construction debris was recently installed in cooperation with a leading company.
The centre now runs a facility to recycle used engine oil and is currently engaged in a study to set up plants to recycle all scraps.
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