[Dubai] Not Enough Glass To Feed The Furnace!

Workers at the Jebel Ali Glass Factory, have assembled an ad-hoc machine which has an integral role in Dubai's glass recycling. However, the lack of glass recycling programmes in the UAE means the company has difficulties getting enough reusable material to make the 70-80,000/tpa that it needs each year, and has to rely on material shipped from other countries. "The problem is there are no rules and regulations for this - they don't force people to segregate waste," said Samir El Sayyed, the factory's commercial manager. The UAE's population has increased almost six fold over the last 10 years and the country now has the highest ecological footprint per capita of any country in the world for several reasons, explained in this article.