The waste collection and city-wide street cleaning division of Bee’ah, Tandeef, has introduced a new range of electric-powered vehicles that will enhance operations to clean the city’s streets and collect waste estimated at 600,000 tonnes a day. This new fleet includes ‘zero emission’ mobile equipment such as new waste compacters, urban vacuum cleaners, automated sweepers, street vacuums and the region’s first solar-powered boats that can collect up to two hundred kilograms of waste from Sharjah’s lagoons and floating debris.

Commenting on the new fleet, His Excellency Salim Al Owais, Chairman of Bee’ah said: “This is yet another first for Sharjah, the Green Emirate. With our new ‘zero emission’ fleet and region’s first solar boat, we are working to keep the environment safe and pure for residents in Sharjah. Bee’ah will continue to lead the way towards sustainability and waste management in the UAE. Keeping us on-track to achieve our aim of zero-waste to landfill by 2015, this new environmentally-friendly range of equipment will help reduce carbon emissions, noise and pollution while keeping Sharjah clean.”

The region’s first solar-powered cleaning boats are sized to easily maneuver around the Mamzar and Khaled Lagoons in Sharjah. They come equipped with a solar roof supplying the energy required to run the two electrical pod-propulsion placed under its hulls. While navigating in a given area, the boats can collect floating waste such as plastics, polystyrene and wood; and stores them on board in a dedicated container with a capacity of two hundred kilogram, which will eventually be taken to the Bee’ah Waste Management Centre for processing and recycling.

“We have set out continuously to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions of our company’s equipment and vehicles and this is yet another step on that path,” said Bee’ah Group CEO Mr. Khaled Al Huraimel. “While the new fleet will be working on the streets and lagoons, we will be continuing to research other technologies that can further assist us to attain our sustainability objectives.”

The ‘zero emission’ waste collection and street cleaning fleet is just one of Tandeef’s initiatives in helping Bee’ah become the leading environmental management company in the region by providing coherent and sustainable environmental solutions to meet the challenges of the community it serves. As well as deploying electric vehicles, Bee’ah also prioritizes the powering of its existing waste collection and haulage vehicles with low sulphur diesel, which helps decrease particulate emissions in the atmosphere, without lowering performance.

All five hundred of its waste collection vehicles are fitted with GPS vehicle tracking and computerized route-optimisation systems. This new technology helps maximise vehicle service productivity and develop more efficient routes for waste collection, in turn reducing emissions from excess fuel consumption. 

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