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It also has one of the highest rates of waste per...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eThe United Arab Emirates is renowned for its poor environmental record - a country with gas-guzzling 4x4s, air conditioned concrete sky scrapers and high electricity and water bills.  \u003cbr/\u003eIt also has one of the highest rates of waste per person at 2.5kg per person per day compared to 2.1kg in the US and just 0.85kg in China.\u003cbr/\u003eIn the past all its rubbish was thrown into landfill sites, but now moves are afoot to change this, with the Emirate of Sharjah leading the way.\u003cbr/\u003eNot that long ago all this waste would have ended up in desert landfill sites.   \u003cbr/\u003eIn Dubai and some of the other emirates most of it still does.\u003cbr/\u003eBut four years ago the Emirate of Sharjah introduced a major recycling initiative.\u003cbr/\u003eNow 40 per cent of all waste is recycled and by 2015 Sharjah is aiming for virtually nothing to go into landfill sites. \u003cbr/\u003eThe private company Bee'ah was set up in Sharjah with the backing of Sheikh Sultan Bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, who is a keen environmentalist and consultants from the Netherlands are offering guidance. \u003cbr/\u003eIt has a contract to run the municipality's waste collections, clean roads and manage the landfill sites - which have all been tidied up.\u003cbr/\u003eThis year different coloured recycling bins were introduced to all households and throughout the emirate to encourage individuals to separate their waste.\u003cbr/\u003eAt this material recovery facility - the third biggest in the world - teams of workers are responsible for sorting plastics, cans and bottles which are then baled into bundles and sent to factories for recycling.\u003cbr/\u003eBee'ah is now trying to raise awareness of the benefits of recycling so that less waste needs to be manually sorted by workers.\u003cbr/\u003e\"In the last few years we've started building the infrastructure but the challenges we face is the awareness side.  Having started, this year, our residential recycling programme we are  focusing more on the residents of Sharjah, educating them and making them aware of the problems of waste,\" Khaled Al Huraimel, CEO of Bee'ah, says.\u003cbr/\u003eBut it's not just household rubbish that's being recycled;  other products such as construction waste and even car tyres are being broken down and reused.\u003cbr/\u003eIn the past tyres were left to rot in landfill sites.  Four-thousand tyres a day are discarded in Sharjah and there is still a backlog of seven million waiting to be processed.\u003cbr/\u003eMetal has to be removed from each tyre before it can be broken down and turned into rubber chips.  These are made into tiles and rubber asphalt for roads and tracks - like this running track in Sharjah.\u003cbr/\u003eBee'ah is now looking ahead to working with the other Emirates to manage waste and encourage recycling.\u003cbr/\u003eThe next step is to find a way to turn waste into energy.  \u003cbr/\u003eA few months ago a research centre was set up at the American University of Sharjah to look at ways of turning waste into valuable resources and finding a way of breaking down plastic.\u003cbr/\u003eIn Dubai the Emirates Environmental Group tries to raise awareness about recycling.  \u003cbr/\u003eDuring their annual can collection day they encourage companies and schools to bring in aluminium cans for collection.  The cans are weighed and prizes are handed out in a bid to encourage recycling.  \u003cbr/\u003eSince they started collecting cans in 1997 they've sent nearly 150,000kgs for recycling.  But still - at less than 10 per cent of the overall number- there is still more that can be achieved.  The remaining 90 per cent get buried in the desert.\u003cbr/\u003eThe group, spearheaded by Emirati Habiba Al Marashi, has set up recycling centres around the Emirates and offers an education programme in schools in a bid to raise awareness amongst the next generation.\u003cbr/\u003e\"To reach to the students we have to go through so many layers until we reach them.  But once we get the management of the schools on board that is an achievement for us.  Reaching to the private sector and they tell you \"we are very busy and we cannot afford to give a half day of our time to a good environmental cause is sad.  Getting the government organisations to realise that this is part and parcel of everyone's responsibility, that it is not only one segment, again is a challenge,\" she says.\u003cbr/\u003eDuring this year's can collection day EEG managed to collect 5,000kg of cans.  \u003cbr/\u003eThis is only a tiny percentage of what gets taken to landfill - but the can collection organisers believe by starting young the next generation will adopt greener ways.\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eSharjah, UAE - March 28, 2012\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide of lorry unloading rubbish\u003cbr/\u003e2. Close of waste emptying from lorry\u003cbr/\u003e3. Close of waste\u003cbr/\u003e4. Wide of waste pile\u003cbr/\u003e5. Wide of Sharjah mosque and skyline\u003cbr/\u003e6. Mid of recycling bins in Sharjah\u003cbr/\u003e7. Various of conveyor belt with rubbish \u003cbr/\u003e8. Mid of workers picking out recyclables from conveyor belt\u003cbr/\u003e9. Close of worker's face\u003cbr/\u003e10. Mid of conveyor belt\u003cbr/\u003e11. Close of plastic bottles\u003cbr/\u003e12. Wide of bottles dropping off conveyor belt\u003cbr/\u003e13. Close of bottles moving along conveyor belt\u003cbr/\u003e14. Mid of bottles dropping off belt\u003cbr/\u003e15. Close of same\u003cbr/\u003e16. Close pull of bottles being put into square bundles\u003cbr/\u003e17. Mid of workers sweeping up bottles\u003cbr/\u003e18. Set up shot of Khaled Al Huraimel, CEO Bee'ah\u003cbr/\u003e19. SOUNDBITE: (English) Khaled Al Huraimel, CEO Bee'ah:  \u003cbr/\u003e\"In the last few years we've started building the infrastructure, but the challenges we face is the awareness side. Having started, this year our residential recycling programme, we are focusing more on the residents of Sharjah, educating them and making them aware of the problems of waste to help them help us to achieve their target.\"\u003cbr/\u003e20. Wide of digger sorting pile of tyres in sand\u003cbr/\u003e21. Various of worn tyres\u003cbr/\u003e22. Various of worker at machine\u003cbr/\u003e23. Wide of workers placing tyre onto conveyor belt\u003cbr/\u003e24. Close of machine cutting up rubber into small pieces\u003cbr/\u003e25. Close of rubber chips - pull out to wide shot of mountain of rubber pieces\u003cbr/\u003e26. Mid of machine making rubber tiles\u003cbr/\u003e27. Pan of rubber tiles\u003cbr/\u003e28. Wide of running track in Sharjah made from recycled rubber\u003cbr/\u003e29. Close pull of plastic bales\u003cbr/\u003e30. Wide pan right of cubes of recycled cans  \u003cbr/\u003eDubai - February 23, 2012\u003cbr/\u003e31. Mid of sign for Can Collection Day reading: (English/Arabic) \"We Can Do It\"\u003cbr/\u003e32. Mid of volunteers unloading bags of cans from Emirates truck and weighing them\u003cbr/\u003e33. Mid of volunteers weighing cans\u003cbr/\u003e34. Close of cans in bin bag\u003cbr/\u003e35. Wide of Habiba Al Marashi sorting through bags with school children\u003cbr/\u003e36. SOUNDBITE: (English) Habiba Al Marashi, Emirates Environmental Group chairman \u003cbr/\u003e\"To reach to the students we have to go through so many layers until we reach them.  But once we get the management of the schools on board that is an achievement for us.  Reaching to the private sector and they tell you \"we are very busy and we cannot afford to give a half day of our time to a good enviromental cause is sad.  Getting the government organisations to realise that this is part and parcel of everyone's responsibility, that it is not only one segment, again is a challenge.\"\u003cbr/\u003e37. 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