Among these experiences, the pavilions of several countries at the Expo show experiences in dealing with waste positively.
Sky News Arabia highlights some of the most prominent innovations in the field of sustainability, presented by a number of participating entities in the exhibition.
Among waste recycling machines, edible cups, biodegradable bags, and vertical farming, the most inspiring experiences come as part of the quest for zero-waste societies.
In the sustainability area, specifically in the Netherlands pavilion, there is an important experience that surprises visitors from all over the world, which is “vertical farming”.
Filled with sustainable solutions, this pavilion obtains water, energy and food from technological innovations including a vertical cone farm.
Public agriculture constitutes the future of urban agriculture, and promotes the concept of sustainability for a waste-free environment in line with the principles and concepts of a circular economy.
Dealing with waste is one of the most important challenges facing efforts to achieve sustainability, and one of the topics on which Expo 2020 Dubai is based.
In the same context, the India Pavilion will showcase the experience of a company specialized in converting crop residues into commercially viable consumer products, to address two major problems: air pollution and plastic pollution.
The company’s range of more than 30 single-use products includes cutlery, takeaway boxes and medicated containers, all of which are 100% natural and biodegradable.
A company from Côte d’Ivoire is demonstrating its waste management experience by linking homes and businesses with its plastic waste collectors.
For the plastic they collect, homes and businesses get points that can be converted into phone credit, and the plastic is then turned into pellets before being sold.
The initiative aims to “simplify the way people manage their waste, by providing a simple solution, and thus obtain high-quality materials for recycling.”
From Guatemala, a company is also reviewing the experience of collecting waste using social media, with financial incentives, and in the Bulgaria pavilion visitors can have a cup of coffee in edible cups.
The Bangladesh Pavilion in the Sustainability Zone will showcase exceptional innovations, such as low-cost ambulances, methods of extracting fuel from plastic, and alternatives to biodegradable plastics.
One of the companies in the Swiss pavilion is reviewing the experience of making fertilizer for crops from human waste, through an environmentally friendly circular sewage system, and this would improve the quality of life and health, protect the environment from pollution, and also mitigate climate change and provide opportunities for agriculture based on bio-fertilizer.
A company from Jordan is also reviewing the experience of a biodegradable bag, which turns waste into organic fertilizer, while a Russian company is also reviewing its experience in producing an alternative to plastic from biodegradable and edible polymer.
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