Waste generation in Abu Dhabi city of the UAE

1. WASTE GENERATION IN ABU DHABI
CITY OF THE UAE
Hamdan Alshamsi
8th December 2022

2. • A city which is the capital of the UAE, lacks
social awareness, poor data collection, not
sufficient recycling and growing population
contributes to the issue of waste generation.
Waste
Generation in
Abu Dhabi City
of the UAE
• Starting educational initiatives in people
• Recycling
• Converting waste material into renewable
energy.
This issue can be
resolved by:

3. EDUCATIONAL
ACTIVITIES
§ Introduce educational activities
§ Raise awareness in people
§ Make people understand how to control
their waste generation

4. Recycling is a sufficient way of
reducing waste generation.
Tadweer Organization is working
for recycling in Abu Dhabi.

5. RENEWABLE ENERGY
§ Turn waste material into renewable
energy
§ To covert waste materials into renewable
energy is the process of incinerating waste and
then using it to produce renewable energy.

6. § Important to resolve waste generation in
Abu Dhabi
§ Environmental consequences will be
severe if the issue is not resolved
§ Clean environment means better living

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Renewable Energy Magazine. Retrieved November 27, 2022, from
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§ Wasmi, N. A. (2021). Abu Dhabi's growing waste problem. The National. Retrieved November 27, 2022, from
https://www.thenationalnews.com/uae/abu-dhabis-growing-waste-problem-1.41758

8. § I made this presentation based on first three learning objectives which include
composition, organization and evidence based presentation. My ideas in this
presentation are very clear and thorough. I focused on organizing my thoughts and
ideas and presented them in a very clear manner. I tried to communicate my ideas
as they are connected with each other. Also, I made this presentation based on
evidence as I used research from different sources and shared the information
here. Overall, I have followed all the learning objectives but mainly focused on
these three.