Buraidah invests in Green Oasis

Qassim municipality has made great strides in the landfill project of Green Oasis in response to the need created by the urbanization and population growth of the city of Buraidah, which is accompanied with an increase in the amount of waste.
“The project manages this waste and directs it toward the preservation of the environment. It invests tons of waste in comprehensive recycling processes. The waste management strategy depends on the latest scientific methods of disposing waste safely, which ensures the development of services and preserves the environment,” the acting secretary of the region, Saleh Al-Ahmad, explained.
He pointed out that the project is aimed at reducing the amount of waste produced by the society to as little as possible, in addition to the separation of waste at the source to make a higher quality waste that could be utilized later, besides benefitting from recycling waste.
Apart from its aim to reduce the amount of waste to the least possible to preserve the environment in the long term, non-recyclable bales of waste will be buried in an engineering cell of landfill that will preserve and protect the environment from pollution and reduce the number of landfill sites.
Al-Ahmad indicated that the Green Oasis landfill project is more than 23 kilometers away from the city of Buraidah, located on an area of 8 million square meters. So far, the municipality has spent more than SR 45 million through various projects to operate it according to the latest international practices for the disposal of waste, as well as to invest in it.
He pointed out that the project included more than 17,000 different species of trees as part of environmental sanitation programs for the site. The number of trees is growing on a regular basis, which granted the site the title Green Oasis.
Green Oasis embraces a number of environment conservation projects that are implemented in accordance with modern scientific methods and specifications.
The waste disposal involves several phases. At first, the waste passes the waste sorting unit, which aims to reduce the amount of waste, thus extending the usable life of the landfill.
Meanwhile, the waste disposal for non-recyclable waste will be operated in a landfill engineering, an advanced technology used in the waste industry. Basal linings and caps are designed in two different manners to maximize containment of potential pollutants. Basal lining systems incorporate geo-synthetic sealing and drainage components to contain the fluids and contaminants that may leach from the waste as well as to direct these fluids to a collection point for treatment. As the waste decomposes, a gas byproduct is naturally produced. These gases consist primarily of carbon dioxide and methane, which is the primary component of natural gas. Carbon dioxide, soluble in water, is most likely to leave the landfill with liquids.