Abu Dhabi DED issued a resolution authorising licensed manufacturing and industrial facilities in Abu Dhabi to trade their secondary industrial products and sell non-usable secondary products as raw materials to other facilities, as a way of reducing operational costs. Mohammed Munif Al Mansouri, Executive Director, IDB, said that the new resolution seeks to promote the recycling and reusing of secondary industrial products within industrial operations through recovering waste generated from factories' production lines, according to the report.

The latest development will not only reduce the facilities' costs but will also help minimise industrial waste. He also pointed out that selling non-usable secondary products as raw materials to other facilities in the emirate represents another form of boosting profitability prospects. The executive director said the move will expand the industrial activities in Abu Dhabi, increase raw material supply within the manufacturing sector and reduce industrial waste. To date, around 500 industrial facilities, which produce reusable materials with economic value such as metal, aluminum, plastics, chemicals, and papers, are expected to benefit from this resolution.

The resolution is expected to benefit over 600 facilities, through producing reusable materials including metal, aluminum, plastics, chemicals, and papers. It aims to reduce industrial waste, as well as strengthen cooperation between industrial facilities in Abu Dhabi.

He stated that this resolution will play a key role in enhancing the strategic directives towards transforming to a circular economy and was confident that Abu Dhabi would achieve enhanced integration and cooperation between industrial facilities following the new regulation, which fall in line with IDB's objective to protect the environment and decrease the volume of industrial waste being disposed in landfills or sent to designated recycling stations, as per the report. He also stated that many industrial facilities, particularly those that reuse materials like iron waste, have submitted requests to the department to add the recycling activity to their industrial activities, which is widely being regarded as an important aspect in the enhancement of industrial production.