1. Team Leader: Nasser Al-Jaraan
Team Members: Mhail Al-Eisa, Arne Osabel, Faisal Al-Marwan, Rami Al-Luhaib, Abdulellah Al-Rasheedi

2. AGENDA
1- Taking a lot of food
and not finishing them
2- Printing & copying
mistakes
3- Excessive use of
tissue paper
4- Using a lot of plastic
bags & other plastic
products
5- Consuming canned
goods but not recycling
the can
6- Solutions and
Recommendations

3. Hadeed makes 27 Tons of Domestic Solid Waste each month
Waste Type Weight (Kg)
Food 10,263
Paper 5,430
Plastic 3,990
Metallic 8,077
Total 27,759
HOW MUCH WASTE DOES HADEED MAKE?
This weight is equal to a CRANE in SPLP !
27 Ton Crane
Source: Cafeteria, General Services, & TS
And not even 1Kg is being reused or recycled !
Waste Composition
9.3 Kg per employee each month

4. OVERCONSUMPTION OF FOOD
10 Tons of wasted
FOOD each month
in Hadeed
Bad: taking a lot of food and not consuming them all…
Produces METHANE --a major source of greenhouse gases
Environmental News Service (ENS), http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/aug2008/2008-08-22-01.asp (16-Nov-2009)
Consequence
You throw your food away
While 16% of the world is hungry!
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/the-big-question-why-is-so-much-of-
the-world-still-hungry-and-what-can-we-do-about-it-1802708.html

5. OVERCONSUMPTION OF TISSUE PAPER
Bad: wasting of tissue rolls or tissue folds…
2 Tons of wasted
PAPER each month
in Hadeed
Illegal logging causes land slide, flash flood and global warming
Wiki Answers, http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_the_effects_of_illegal_logging_in_your_air (16-Nov-2009)
illegal logging … …is the cause of many landslides
Consequence

6. OVERCONSUMPTION OF PAPER
Bad: careless printing and recopying mistakes
3 Tons of wasted
PAPER each month
in Hadeed
17 trees, 20 years old, to produce 1 Ton of paper
KansasGreenTeam.org, http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_much_paper_can_one_tree_produce (16-Nov-2009)
3 Tons A3/A4 + 2 Tons Tissue = 5 Tons of Paper x 17 Trees = 85 Trees per month
Consequence

7. OVERCONSUMPTION OF PLASTICS
Bad: over usage of plastic cups & plastic bags
Pollutes the environment, Kills the animals, Doesn’t decompose
Grass Roots Recycling Network (GRRN), http://www.grrn.org/beverage/shareholders/articles/can_waste.html (16-Nov-2009)
3 Tons of waste
PLASTICS each month
in Hadeed
Hadeed Gate 3, Littered with plastic Dead bird ate plastics
Cow eating a plastic bag
Consequence

8. Consequence
OVERCONSUMPTION OF CANNED GOODS
8 Tons of waste
CANS each month
in Hadeed
Bad: consuming lots of soda & not recycling the can
Energy from
118 mL
Gasoline
9.67 kWh/L
(NewWorldEncyclopedia)
Takes so much energy to produce just one can
Grass Roots Recycling Network (GRRN), http://www.grrn.org/beverage/shareholders/articles/can_waste.html (16-Nov-2009)
1,411 Watts
of Power
in 1 Hour
Energy
Needed to
Produce 1 Can
Waste
Emissions
from Energy
Usage
57,600 cans are purchased
each month by Hadeed.
None are being recycled.

9. • Reduce the food you take from the cafeteria
(saves 10T food waste)
• Reduce printing. Print only if necessary
(saves 51 trees each month)
• Reuse the back side of printed A3/A4 paper
(saves trees)
• Reduce tissue paper usage
(saves trees)
• Recycle the cans from soda drinks
(reduction of emissions from softdrink can production)
• Reduce/reuse plastic bags. Recycle them
(eliminates non-decomposable garbage and saves animals)
SOLUTION TO OVERCONSUMPTION
Properly Implement the 3R
REDUCE REUSE RECYCLE

10. RECOMMENDATIONSPECIFIC RECOMMENDATION
Include the “Segregation of
Waste” in the Waste Collection
Contractor Scope
Provide four types of waste
containers for plastics, metals,
paper, & organic
Provide waste collector
machines
Send the “Segregated Wastes”
for RECYCLING
“Total Waste Management by a Total Change
in Consumption and Waste Disposal Practices”
REDUCE REUSE RECYCLE