Tadweer: improving municipal solid waste sustainability practices
Publication date: 29 April 2020
Abstract
Learning outcomes
To examine and create an ideal pathway model that can implement aiming to change the current improper practices in managing municipal solid waste (MSW) to sustainable practices. To acquire a better understanding of public participation and community culture helps in achieving the aim of reducing the amount of waste generation, sending less waste to landfill sites and encouraging the reuse and recycling of materials instead. To help students whom the awareness in the community regarding the importance of protecting the environment and acting in a civilization way has increased. To improve the MSW sustainability practices and enhance the waste sustainability practices together with energy and material conservation. To have more extensive knowledge and awareness of issues in waste management and some of the dilemmas managers of strategic and operations face.
Case overview/synopsis
Abu Dhabi’s center of waste management is known as Tadweer is a governmental entity under the Abu Dhabi Executive Council. Tadweer is responsible for managing every MSWs includes collecting, transferring, segregating, treating, recycling, reusing and tracking all kinds of wastes. CEO of Tadweer Dr Salem Alkabi called his team that manages various departments such as strategy, operations, projects and licensing. The meeting was to discuss Tadweer’s future directing and strategy for mismanagement of solid waste dumping into landfills in Abu Dhabi. Dumping in landfills is the main challenge Tadweer faced. Mr. Abdulrahman Albloushi’s strategy and business development executive director of Tadweer highlighted to Alkaabi how Tadweer could improve the waste management practices to make it more sustainable. Furthermore, assisting the center gets more benefit from the waste s instead of losing this valuable waste into landfills. Consequently, Mr. Abdulrahman must grapple with some difficult questions: how much the effectiveness in collecting waste from where it generated and removing it out-of-sight?
Complexity academic level
This case study is designed for undergraduate and postgraduate students, and executive MBA students of business management programs, especially for waste management, environmental management and strategic management courses.
Supplementary materials
Teaching Notes are available upon request.
Subject code
CSS 4: Environmental management.
Keywords
Acknowledgements
The success and outcome of this case study required guidance and assistance from many people. We wish to thank Dr. Salem Khalfan Al Kaabi, the CEO of Tadweer for providing us with an opportunity to write the case study of Tadweer and providing us with all the relevant support and guidance. We would also extend our thanks to Mr. Abdulrahman Albloushi, Ahmed Alhosani, and Ibrahim Alali of Tadweer for their encouragement and moreover for their timely support and guidance until the completion of this case study. We also thankful to many staff in Tadweer for their timely assistance.
Disclaimer. This case is written solely for educational purposes and is not intended to represent successful or unsuccessful managerial decision-making. The authors may have disguised names; financial and other recognisable information to protect confidentiality.
Citation
Al Bloushi, B.G., Ahmad, S.Z. and Bani Mfarrej, M.F. (2020), "Tadweer: improving municipal solid waste sustainability practices", , Vol. 10 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/EEMCS-08-2019-0210
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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