The Waste Treatment Center in Mesaieed has the capacity to treat about 2,300 tonnes of household, agricultural and slaughter house wastes per day.
The Waste Treatment Centre, under the Ministry of Municipality and Environment, is one of the largest such specialized centrs in the Middle East, said a magazine of the ministry .
It was established over three square kilometers near Mesaieed Industrial Zone, and designed to meet all environmental safety standards. The Minister of Municipality and Environment recently visited the facility.
The Center’s importance lies in its modern and safe treatment of wastes, which are transformed into usable materials.
Also, the Center’s operations include treatment of buildings waste by recycling them into materials for different uses. At the Center, waste is distributed as per its type and organic waste is discharged at the bunker to be treated according to the adopted methods.
From an economic perspective, operating the Center and expulsion stations by the State or the private sector will accommodate a large number of local and foreign workforce, in addition to the treatment operations with estimated organic fertilizers of about 150,000 tonnes.
The Center seeks to find a complete solution for the problem of household wastes in such way that a trivial percentage (3-5%) shall remain in the form of fly ash, beside making use of garbage for the production of fertilizers and energy at a rate of 55 MW, which is sufficient to operate the Center while the surplus is added to the public network.
All processes are done inside covered sites, something which reduces the emission of bad odour. Even expulsion stations have been designed to be promptly cleaned from sediments and remnants in cars.
