The Ministry of Health, MoH, and Bee’ah, a Sharjah-based waste management company, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, to recycle materials that are used by the former.
According to the MoU, the ministry will improve the friendly environment policy and use wastes after their treatment and recycling.
Awadh Seghayer Al Kitbi, Assistant Under-Secretary for Supporting Services, said that the MoU enhances ministry’s efforts in building partnerships between both public and private sectors and its efforts in achieving the objectives and goals of the federal government strategy through joint and common actions based on environmental challenges and integration of efforts.
"It also aims at achieving the best cultural and environmental results among the society members and officials in support of the appropriate decisions that are for the benefit of the environment", he elaborated.
Al Kitbi added that the agreement aims to enhance awareness campaigns to reduce the amount of waste and adopt recycling practices, which lead to the reduction of environmental pollution; educating the employees of the ministry of health to reduce the production of waste and review the materials that are used at work; evaluating the volume of materials and disposable wastes, as well as supporting the cultural and educational awareness campaigns that are organised by the ministry in cooperation of Bee’ah.