Abu Dhabi (Union)
The Sustainable City, the first fully sustainable community in the Middle East, organized a community clean-up campaign in celebration of World Environment Day. The initiative included a clean-up campaign for Kite Beach, which was organized in cooperation with the Dubai Municipality.
Children from Sanad Village, the largest center in the region for understanding autism spectrum disorders and other disorders, participated in the campaign, to encourage the inclusion of people of determination in various environmental and community initiatives.
The waste collected by the participants during the beach cleaning included cigarette butts, paper and plastic bags that were removed from along the beach.Waste management has always been one of the main environmental priorities of the “Sustainable City”, which works to reduce waste and encourage its recycling, and it has succeeded in transforming 89% of its waste comes from landfills and takes important steps in its quest for a more sustainable future.
This initiative is part of a global movement that includes 20 million people from more than 180 countries that have undertaken clean-up activities and initiatives to rid the planet of garbage and remove waste from different locations and places around the world.
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