Why YOU should recycle /reuse

The Earth recycles everything and reuses the material from dead plants and animals to feed new plant life and make new soil to replenish itself.

Humankind should take cues from Mother Nature and do no less: recycle everything.

Since the invention of plastic from oil – it's everywhere, overwhelming landfills it doesn't decay and filling the oceans with debris t...

A campaign to clean up the seas starts tomorrow, Friday 16 August 2019

Entitled “Our Sea is Clean”, led and organized by the Bahrain Volunteer Diving Team in cooperation with the Supreme Council for the Environment, in order to promote community partnership, c...

GDN  June 12 2019

Bahrain said it will begin regulating and banning plastic usage from next month.(July 2019)

The first phase will focus on single-use plastic bags as well as banning the import of non-biodegradable plastic bags, Supreme Council for Environment chief executive Dr Mohammed Mubarak bin Daina said. **they forget that biodegradable plastic reduces the quality of recy...

7th August 2018 the following article appeared in the GDN about the newly established Estidama with long time recycling avocate Bob Doig

A call to those living near by to use these bins so more locations will be available in the future.

A PILOT scheme to install recycling bins in residential areas has been launched in Nabih Saleh.

A crying Shame for Bahrain's recycling efforts

Gvision to sell it's Reverse Vending Machines RVM for lack of sponsors in Bahrain

From the earth day network I received the following message that I would like to share :

Dear Friends,

Let's work together to get rid of millions of tons of waste polluting our land and sea!

This Saturday, September the 15th is World Cleanup Day, and millions of people worldwide will take part in removing plastic and other types of waste from the world's coastlines, rivers, parks, cities, and ...

Locally grown food tastes and looks better.

The crops are picked at their peak, and farmstead products like cheeses and are hand-crafted for best flavor.

Why is buying local so important?

Eating local means more money stays within your community. Every dinar spent generates twice as much income for the local economy.

Local produce is fresher and tastes better becau...

Heya Beya, who is cleaning up the plastic pots? Yet again lazy traders will be  causing pollution and should be held responsible for the act.

We celebrate with our children and grandchildren each year the sacrifice of Heya Beya and as the children don’t grow them we should make it a point to buy only those in palm-frond baskets.

Unfortunately, the past few years I saw many people with their children carrying pl...

My letter was published today in the Gulf daily News 6th January 2018

This is a rebuttal to your article ‘Renewable energy plans on track’ (GDN, December 29). Absolutely no to waste-to-energy facilities in Bahrain! Why? (original article below)

Myth 1: Waste incineration is a source of renewable energy.

Fact: Municipal waste is non-renewable, consisting of dis...

Today in the Gulfdailynews I read "by the way by Reem Antoon" "shocking statistics".

And I decide to look up the article quoted:  (full article for download)

"Pollution is the l...

March 30th 2016 Averda contract cancelled due to garbage situation in Lebanon.

What are the consequences of the cancelation of this hard won contract?

Averda company is supposed to be a leading company for environmental solutions that has bins collecting e-waste in Dubai, which is sorely needed in Bahrain seeing that even telecommunicati...

Water wasted by municipality

It has started to heat up again with humidity and temperatures around the 35+C in the early morning (6am)

Every morning municipal gardeners all around Bahrain switch on sprinklers during the peak traffic morning hours when the...

In January this year somebody contacted me to find out if there was a group or society that collected food seeing as that he saw a major supermarket throw out good food that near expiry date (not yet expired though)

Posted on » Tuesday, June 09, 2015 Gulf daily News

SPECIAL recycling bins where people can dispose of used batteries have been installed in Jawad outlets across the country.

The C-Thru Nexus Battery bins from the UK are available at:

I could not believe it when I read that yet again the northern governate municipal council is trying to lift a ban on building in the green belt.

Urbanization of Nabi Saleh

With only 2....

I am very please to hear that alosra is doing more to going green even going so far as to have a mascot called Ecoco.

In 2009 I had an informal meeting with some likeminded people at the headoffice of BMMI after the disappearance of the recycle bins that were there for many years, removed because waste was thrown in not recycable items- they were directly placed next to the waste containers that time - and I encouraged them to rehink t...

With the setting up of The new Royal society for animal welfare we will have no less than 4 separate private groups/societies that aim to solve the issue of strays in the Kingdom of Bahrain

The BSPCA - Tony the Dogfather - Bahrain strays and now the proposed new royal society.

Because we have guests we went to see the famous landmark “the tree of life” in the Sakhir desert.

I was saddened that while the security man was hiding in his cubby hole many people were climbing on the tree and walking over the small settlement found near and around the tree.

Mobile Phone masts are everywhere in Bahrain.

They have to pay a fee to place the mast in an area if it is granted, which communications companies easily bypass by placing them on top of houses and buildings or in gardens paying a monthly fee of BHD 500- 1000 per month (that was offered to me), which is considered private property.

However in many cases they are placed without consulting or inform...

BAHRAIN has one of the highest energy consumption rates per person in the world. We are 4th highest in the GCC after Kuwait, UAE, Qatar and 19th worldwide.

From 1,947.37 kWh per capita in 1971 to 10,018.07 kWh Energy use per capita in 2011 still steadily going up. So why is the governmen...