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Dubai has teamed up with Al Serkal group and created Envirol, a facility designed to transform waste grease from environmental hazard to numerous products such as biodiesel.  This will help the city clean up its act and pinpoint businesses not doing their part towards a cleaner world.

Elham Pourtangesti is the plant manager at Envirol, and explains that only a small amount of grease is harmful to the environment, and over time this will ultimately lead to the demise of the sewer system, causing extensive damage costing the city millions of dirhams.

He adds that it will also be detrimental to restaurants, contaminating their kitchens.  “The solution is grease traps…and the recycling plant set up jointly between Al Serkal and Dubai Municipality to recycle the waste to irrigation water, biodiesel, clean oil and fertilizer.”

How will this work?  The companies manufacturing and selling the grease traps will issue the buyer an Envirol coupon developed to aid in tracking who exactly is disposing of the waste grease in an illegal manner.  These companies will also be required to install GPS tracking devices on any vehicles that will dispose of this grease at Envirol, and this does not make business owners happy.

Some have already voiced their concern over Envirol being able to see their every move, and a lot of these owners have already pumped massive amounts of money into installing GPS devices on their vehicles already.  However, Envirol is seeing whether they can link these existing devices up to their own tracking system to appease them.

The majority of the companies affected by these regulations agree with it all, like Simone Macatangay of Trashco.  “It is a good thing.  It will eliminate the people that are not really involved in the system and that are not consious of our environment.  All of us here have a deep concern for our environment and we want the help of Al Serkal and Dubai Municipality to help solve the problems of Dubai.”

The use of the coupons will begin immediately, however the GPS device installation is still up in the air.

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