How to keep your greens green in Dubai

Meat, half-eaten pizza slices, fruit peels, paper and other organic waste are being churned into water and fertiliser to help keep the Dubai Creek Golf & Yacht Club green and reduce the amount of waste sent to landfill.

Leftover food is fed into a machine that dehydrates it into compost, which is then ploughed back into landscaped areas.

“The main concept is to recycle at origin so food from a plate at the restaurant does not stay for days in a bin mixed with other garbage awaiting transport," said Flavio Massimo Viviani, head of engineering at consultancy Provectus Middle East that has partnered with the club for a recycling project.

 “You can put anything from leftover pizza to tiramisu in it, what comes out of the machine is compost and water, there is nothing for the landfill," Mr Viviani said.

With almost a third of the world’s food for human consumption, about 1.3 billion tonnes, lost or wasted each year, this initiative is an interesting way to keep your greens nice.

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