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Dismayed by the plastic bags piling up in the Gaza Strip, a group of young Palestinians is recycling discarded fabric into reusable totes to clamp down on waste and protect the environment. Their cloth bags – painted with colourful characters and slogans including “NOT PLASTIC – FANTASTIC” sell for 25 …

Dubai – “Refugee and other vulnerable children have the human right to a good education”, said Rudayna Abdo the founder of Thaki a social impact non-profit association. Abdo and her dedicated team are calling on companies in the UAE to donate their used laptops for reuse “It makes a huge difference to …

Dubai – Heliatek is the winner of the Online Global Innovation Award 2020. The announcement was made at the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week (ADSW) Thursday by H.E. Fahed Al Hammadi, the acting Assistant Undersecretary for Green Development and Climate Change at the Ministry of Climate Change and Environment. By Arthur …

Every day, by the hour, thousands of plastic bags carry our retail and supermarket purchases safely home in the UAE. Only a few consumers fully grasp the toll that the bags can wreak upon the environment. According to the Ministry of Climate Change and Envrionment, 11 billion plastic bags are …

Dubai is hoping to be the world’s first “waste-free city” by 2020, thanks to an ambitious project by Dubai Municipality in which buildings and communities will produce electricity by treating waste. The civic body’s project titled ‘Wastenizer’ is one of the 26 “10X” Dubai government initiatives approved during the World …

A new ‘pay as you throw’ waste fee is coming soon for Dubai buildings, Gulf News has learnt. All buildings in Dubai will soon be charged for waste collection as Dubai Municipality has decided to outsource the service to the private sector, Gulf News can reveal. A senior municipality official confirmed that …