A year after the transfer of millions of used tires from the South Saad Al-Abdullah area to the recycling factories in Al-Salmi, companies working in the field of tire recycling and transporting under the supervision of the Environment Public Authority were able to shred and export them and the country has benefited from this sale and this practice has helped protect the environment.
A local Arabic daily said the EPA had until August 2021 transferred about 42 million tires that had accumulated over 17 years in a rural area.
An unidentified official at the EPA stressed that “the factory’s production capacity per year is estimated at one and a half million tires, and it can be raised to 4.5 million tires per year soon, in the event of continuous operation and the introduction of auxiliary equipment.”
Meanwhile, the official said the EPA participated in the celebration held by the United Nations recently at the Kuwait University under the slogan ‘Youth Leading Ambition for Climate Action’ and added Kuwait is in the process of establishing a factory to produce organic and environmentally friendly ethanol, which will bring desired economic benefit to the country, due to the characterization of this industry and will put Kuwait in an advanced rank among the regional countries exporting the substance.
The official said such projects are “economically feasible, based on sustainable development and reliance on renewable energy. The organic ethanol plant is an economic project and a Kuwaiti edifice that contributes to raising the country’s national income, revives its environmentally friendly exports, and supports and provides jobs for national cadres.”
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