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In the past, there was no inorganic waste. Everything was broken down over time. Saudi Arabia and the GCC, we used to use waste for animal feed. But, since our entry into the world of plastic, the Arab world has become one of the worst regions in the amount of biodegradable waste, but which is scattered on the ground. I received many letters asking me about the problems of waste and recycling.
I can make a parallel between a Saudi researcher, the region of Hasa, who studies the best methods of waste treatment and recycling, and other research that has caught my attention is not initiated Dr. Chaden Diyab, a specialist in environmental chemistry and of France, during his visit to Qatar,was able to talk with her about the lost consciousness of the Arab world about the harmful effects of pollution and methods capable of being green embedded in complex industrial environments.
Al Mulhim Abdoulatif, journalist Alyaum, July 15, 2011, Saudi Arabia
In order to manage pollution impacts caused by industrial processes and presenting a real risk for the environment (soil, water and air), a set of green technologies have been developed to investigate manage and limit potential pollutions. Among these approaches, green innovative remediation methods are technologies that help to enhance cleanup project’s environmental, social, and economic footprints.
A risk is an event that if it happens, can have positive or negative impact. In fact, we are living in a world driven by risk; however, we are not, in most of the times, aware about the concept of “Risk” especially while we are in the process of decision making. The extreme impact of certain kinds of rare and unpredictable events (outliers), provoke humans' tendency to find simplistic explanations for these events retrospectively, after the fact. This fact, which evolved into theory, has since become known as the black swan theory. The question that imposes itself is how we can approach risks in complex industrial contexts and manage their impacts on the corporations’ productivity and their over whole system, such as new environmental regulations, technology and new innovative technology solutions?
"Dr. Diyab Chaden, leader of French environmental consultant for Al Youm said that understanding the Peace Canal project in its environmental aspects essential is to identify key impacts and obstacles that may impede the progress of projects such as the effect of the desalination, the change of chemical composition which occurs after the mixing of waters of two seas."
Al Youm, Amman, Jordan December 19, 2009
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