DOHA: The waste management department of the Ministry of Municipality and Urban Planning has awarded contracts to local companies to dismantle 24,000 scrap automobiles and provide the metals thus extracted to local steel-maker.
These were abandoned vehicles that were lying in the junk yards of the ministry, according to a senior official.
Similarly, some 15 companies had been contracted to cut into small pieces at least two million scarp automotive tyres and the pieces have been exported.
“Other companies also have opportunities in this area if they wish to bag contracts,” said Safar Mubarak Al Shafi, head of the Ministry of Municipality and Urban Planning’s waste recycling plant.
He told Al Sharq that the ministry is setting up a fully automated recycling plant near Al Khor, and plans are afoot to expand the recycling capacity of the plant to 5,500 tonnes per day from the present 2,300 tonnes due to rising population.
He said the new plant would be operational by the end of 2016.
According to the head of the Ministry’s waste recycling plant., construction waste is also recycled at his plant and the quality residues (after the recycling) are used as landfill materials.
He said the plant generates 30 megawatt of electricity using the waste, of which 6 megawatt is used by the plant and the remaining 24 megawatt is given to the state.
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