Fostering change in Bahrain

摘要

Bahrain is a small island in the Arabian Gulf with a growing population of more than 1.45 million. After more than a decade of rapid economic development and urbanisation, municipal solid waste (MSW) generation has increased at an average rate of nearly eight per cent per year, with quantities of construction and demolition (C&D) waste nearly doubling over the same period. Other than a small amount of industrial rubbish, waste -more than two million tonnes in 2018 - is sent to a single non-engineered, semi-controlled landfill in the middle of the desert. With an estimated two years of remaining void space left, and no other land allocated for additional waste infrastructure, the need for change was urgent.