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Author Al Bloushi, Badreya Gharib, author

Title Tadweer : improving municipal solid waste sustainability practices / Badreya Gharib Al Bloushi (Department of Management, Abu Dhabi University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), Syed Zamberi Ahmad (Department of Management, College of Business Administration, Abu Dhabi University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), Manar Fawzi Bani Mfarrej (Department of Environment, Health and Sciences, Abu Dhabi University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates)
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2020
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Description 1 online resource (4 pages) : 26 illustrations
Series Emerald emerging markets case studies, 2045-0621 ; vol. 10, no. 2
Notes To examine and create an ideal pathway model that can implement aiming to change the current improper practices in managing municipal solid waste (MSW) to sustainable practices. To acquire a better understanding of public participation and community culture helps in achieving the aim of reducing the amount of waste generation, sending less waste to landfill sites and encouraging the reuse and recycling of materials instead. To help students whom the awareness in the community regarding the importance of protecting the environment and acting in a civilization way has increased. To improve the MSW sustainability practices and enhance the waste sustainability practices together with energy and material conservation. To have more extensive knowledge and awareness of issues in waste management and some of the dilemmas managers of strategic and operations face
Abu Dhabi's center of waste management is known as Tadweer is a governmental entity under the Abu Dhabi Executive Council. Tadweer is responsible for managing every MSWs includes collecting, transferring, segregating, treating, recycling, reusing and tracking all kinds of wastes. CEO of Tadweer Dr Salem Alkabi called his team that manages various departments such as strategy, operations, projects and licensing. The meeting was to discuss Tadweer's future directing and strategy for mismanagement of solid waste dumping into landfills in Abu Dhabi. Dumping in landfills is the main challenge Tadweer faced. Mr. Abdulrahman Albloushís strategy and business development executive director of Tadweer highlighted to Alkaabi how Tadweer could improve the waste management practices to make it more sustainable. Furthermore, assisting the center gets more benefit from the waste s instead of losing this valuable waste into landfills. Consequently, Mr. Abdulrahman must grapple with some difficult questions: how much the effectiveness in collecting waste from where it generated and removing it out-of-sight?
This case study is designed for undergraduate and postgraduate students, and executive MBA students of business management programs, especially for waste management, environmental management and strategic management courses
Teaching Notes are available upon request
Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Industrial management -- Environmental aspects -- Case studies
Sewage disposal -- Case studies
Strategic planning -- Case studies.
Business & Economics -- Environmental Economics.
Business & the environment, 'Green' approaches to business.
Form Electronic book
Author Ahmad, Syed Zamberi, author
Bani Mfarrej, Manar Fawzi, author