Education City to be home to Qatar’s first community centric recycling hub

Education City to be home to Qatar’s first community centric recycling hub

QNA

Marking Global Recycling Day, Qatar Foundation (QF) has announced plans to build Green Island, Qatars first recycling hub within Education City, in partnership with Seashore Group.

Green Island will kick off with six recycling streams paper, plastic, aluminum cans, e-waste, batteries, and organic waste. Partially powered by solar panels, it will be easily accessible by public transport, including the EC Tram.

Ground has been broken at the project site and the recycling hub is expected to be open to the public by October, if not sooner. Spanning more than 8,000 square meters, Green Island will be made up of 95 end-of-life shipping containers, which have been donated by Milaha, one of the largest maritime and logistics companies in the Middle East.

Green Island will also feature research labs, a themed giftshop, an open space for exhibitions and lectures, organic cafes, and a farm-to-table restaurant with its vertical farm onsite. Additionally, it will house an art gallery where students can exhibit pieces of recyclable waste, as well as a 3D printing lab that prints using recycled concrete.

"It is no secret that there is a gaping hole when it comes to recycling in Qatar," said Sustainability Manager Nawal Al Sulaiti, Qatar Foundation (QF).