Three winners from the shoppers who continued to use sustainable shopping bags throughout the month of Ramadan, which shows the extent of their environmental culture and keenness to participate in the government effort to reduce waste, were honoured … reports Asian Lite News.
Dubai Municipality’s Waste Management Department has concluded its awareness initiative called, “Shop smartly and reduce your waste” at the Lulu Hypermarket, Al Barsha branch by honouring the winners among the shoppers who participated in the campaign.
The initiative was aimed at educating shoppers about the importance of reducing the waste of their purchases by following a number of sustainable environmental means and ideas, which included the use of paper bags and multi-use cloth bags instead of plastic bags, reuse of household items, purchase of basic materials and not luxuries, and contribute to the separation of household waste.
Eng. Abdulmajeed Sifaie, Director of Waste Management Department and Head of the Sustainable Waste Management Awareness Team at Dubai Municipality said that during the initiative, which was organized with the cooperation of a number of companies in the private sector, 20,000 sustainable bags were distributed to the shoppers during the month of Ramadan.
Three winners from the shoppers who continued to use sustainable shopping bags throughout the month of Ramadan, which shows the extent of their environmental culture and keenness to participate in the government effort to reduce waste, were honoured.
The Lulu Hypermarket employees, who participated in the “Green Cashier” program, were also honoured during the ceremony for their best awareness efforts. The Green Cashiers were assigned to promote the use of sustainable bags and creating awareness among the shoppers and their competence in the performance of their awareness duties were evaluated.
He pointed out the importance of each individual’s commitment to the society to take responsibility for waste minimization in order to achieve the goals of sustainable development and the continuous efforts of the Municipality to educate the community about the importance of waste reduction through smart shopping and purchasing of low-waste household products as they are the basic partners in achieving positive results and objectives.
“The initiative will be implemented on a wider scale with a number of strategic partners in the rest of the shopping malls and commercial establishments, by following a number of innovative practices and ideas that contribute to the preservation of the environment by achieving the National Index for the transfer of 75% of the waste produced in the Emirate of Dubai from the landfill by 2021,” said Sifaie.