Recycling: the why,how and where in Bahrain

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Having spent 10 yrs working for recyling companies in Bahrain my first year in Bahrain has been spent trying to get environmental initiatives off  the ground. After 14 months BAPCO finally managed to get 3 sets fo recyling for charity bins into awali and 6 months after that they produced 400 pieces of paper to tell the residents about the bins. I still have to weekely collect compost from our so called Environmental park and put them in my compost to stop them going to landfill and the bottle tops that were supposed to be collected from the environmental walk were found in a bag in a bin going to landfill . We now have green bins for my ILM courses, which I had to buy myself after asking for them for 6 months and we are collecting bottle tops to get recyled for wheelchairs for the disabled. Meanwhile at the refinery rubish is left strewn all over the car park below the noticeboard which daily proclaims what an environmentally friendly compnay we are. Sometimes I wonder why I bother!!

Well, I am a German mother of five and married to a Bahraini. Many things changed over the past 25 years on our little, but still to recycle is still a big job. As Jameela I was brought up with recycling. Years ago we would take our stuff to containers near Jawad in Sanad, but they are long gone. My raw left overs/scaps are going into my compost boxes. My grinded eggshells all over my little garden and pot plants. Papers to the local school, well and now I hope to bring my plastic bottles and glas to the containers next to Osra.

 I am not going to give up and keep trying to recycle and spread the news as much as I can.

Taking responsibility seriously is what I strongly believe in. I have over 14 years experience in Internal Audit, my attention to detail and to complying with regulations that affect the well-being of a corporation, society and country is of paramount importance to me.

I have come to this site looking for the proper way to dispose of a blackberry battery, and here I am, searching if there is a harzardous waste management site in Bahrain that collects material that fall under this category. Unfortunately, I discovered that we do not have such a site, but I hope that, by documenting my concern, we will soon have one.

Lets make the world a better place.