Waste Management

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The Masdar City solid waste strategy seeks to minimise waste to landfill and maximise the resource potential of waste materials by reuse, recycling, composting and recovery of energy). For Phase 1, total waste is expected to be about 22,000 tonnes a year, while the Phase 1 target is to divert 50% of all waste from landfill. 

The city's solid waste is divided into three principle streams: dry recyclables (cans, plastics, cardboard, papers, etc), wet recyclables (food and other organic waste) and residuals (e.g. toothpaste tubes, empty food containers and other common waste that is not clearly one of the other two). A fourth stream, which represents a small percentage of the total, incldes bulky waste, hazardous wastes and other special wastes, such as batteries. Buildings in the city have three waste chutes to allow for easy separation into the three main waste streams.

A Resource Recovery Centre (RRC) in Masdar City will have facilities to further sort dry recyclables before onward transport to local or regional reprocessing facilities, compost wet recyclables for use in city landscaping, and prepare the remaining

non-recyclable and special waste for offsite management.