A recycling partnership contract to launch Khadamat's Green Phone Program was signed with Enviroserve - a federally accredited and dedicated company in the Middle East offering electronic scrap management services, refrigerant gas recovery and reclaim, and environmental audits.
The Green Phone campaign aims to facilitate recovery and recycling of used mobile phones and accessories and ensure toxic components are processed in specialized refineries overseas in order to extract and re-use the raw materials. The campaign also includes the collection and recycling of obsolete electronic items from across the campus.
The partnership contract was signed by Tahsin Haimour, General Manager of Khadamat Facilities Management and Zornitza Hadjitodorova on behalf of Stuart Fleming, CEO of Enviroserve at Khadamat Office, Al Ain, UAE.
Mobile phones contain highly toxic substances that if disposed of incorrectly go directly to landfill resulting in contamination of soil, water and air "We have to stop this and take active steps to ensure mobile phones don't end up in domestic landfill," added Leyla Porteous, Support Services Manager of Khadamat.
Zornitza Hadjitodorova, Division Manager E-Waste at Enviroserve, said: "Khadamat is ahead, in terms of their thinking, way of responding and in the quest to do things properly. Khadamat are the first Facilities Management Company that has started a proper e-waste recycling initiative in Al Ain.
Khadamat Facilities Management LLC - is a joint venture of Mubadala, fully-owned by Abu Dhabi government, and Serco, a leading International services company, and was formed primarily to operate the UAE University Campus in Al Ain. For more information on Khadamat please visit their website at www.khadamat.ae.
Enviroserve is a Technology Asset Management Company specializing in End of Life electronics management. Their aim is to assist clients in developing and implementing effective technology end-of-life asset management practices that are relevant to their organisation by offering a solution at every step of the technological life cycle. Their services comprise re-marketing, re-deployment, recycling and disposal. For more information contact zh@enviroserve.ae and 04 885 24 34.
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