Bee'ah wins waste management contract for Egypt's new Administrative Capital

UAE waste management company Bee’ah has been awarded a contract to provide waste management and city cleaning services for the new Administrative Capital in Egypt. Bee’ah will begin operations at the new administrative capital in March 2021, with a target of diverting 80 per cent of waste from landfill

UAE waste management company Bee’ah has been awarded a contract to provide waste management and city cleaning services for the new Administrative Capital in Egypt.

Egypt’s new Administrative Capital is a project to expand Cairo, and is expected to house 6.5 million people over a total area of 500 square kilometres. In addition to 21 residential districts, the development will also contain a new presidential district, government district, diplomatic district and headquarters of the House of Representatives.

Bee’ah will begin operations at the new administrative capital in March 2021, with a target of diverting 80 per cent of waste from landfill.

Bee’ah has achieved the highest waste diversion rate in the Middle East to date in Sharjah, with 76 per cent of waste that would previously have gone to the landfill being diverted. The waste management company is also developing the region’s first waste-to-energy facility in Sharjah.

Expected to treat more than 300,000 tonnes of municipal solid waste each year, or 37.5 tonne per hour, the Sharjah plant will have the capacity to generate around 30 MW of energy.

In October last year, Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD), a leading national entity for development aid, approved a $33 million concessionary loan for the waste-to-energy facility.
The facility has been designed as part of Sharjah’s zero-waste-to-landfill target and the UAE’s objective of diverting 75 per cent of its municipal solid waste from the landfill by 2021.

In July, Bee’ah revealed it was planning to develop a 40MW photovoltaic (PV) solar farm at Al-Saja’a waste landfill site in the Northern Emirate of Sharjah.