The properties expropriated for the two projects, King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz for the Development of Makkah ‘Emmar Makkah,’ and public transportation have transformed the city into a large market for scrap material such as iron, sanitary hardware, electrical items, window and door frames, escalators and marble stones.

Experts estimate the number of properties to be expropriated for the benefit of the two projects at 45,000.

The scrap of the properties expropriated has created big investment opportunities for trade in used iron, electrical devices and items and even used marble stones.

The price of one ton of such scrap ranges between SR800 to SR950, some of it fit for local recycling. The scrap from hotels and residential towers amounts to 10 tons for one building, which comes to a total of 300,000 tons.

Mu’eith Al-Hedali, a developer, said development projects that require the removal of thousands of properties contributed to the revival of the scrap trading, where some contractors gather the used, removed iron bars and rods of the demolished buildings and sell it to local plants for recycling, the price of one ton of the item being SR900, about 40 percent of its price in local markets.

“There are specialized laborers who take off the iron from the scrap and move it to warehouses that store such items, sometimes more than 3,000 tons daily”, said Al-Hedali.

Another developer, Ahmed Al-Futhali said scrap trading has flourished with the completion of the four ring-roads which have required the expropriation of more than 8,000 properties, mostly hotels and residential towers dedicated for housing pilgrims. Some of the towers are 6 to 15 meters high.

Mazen Al-Suehari said the removal of properties for the development projects currently underway in Makkah has stirred many markets, including the scrap trading one where the scrap of hotels and residential towers contains large amounts of material, sometimes 10,000 tons in a single building. Saturday.

A workshop organized as part of the conference will discuss the major aspects of the information and administrative systems being applied in various health sectors in addition to an exhibition accompanying the conference in which leading companies and specialized agencies dealing with health information technology will participate.washing vehicles on the streets.

Muhammad Al-Harbi, Hani Jamali, and Fahd Al-Hassani said that most car owners prefer to have their cars washed at these sites as they find the prices reasonable and also because they find regular car washing sites congested.

Faisal Al-Zahrani, Khalid Al-Hbani, and Osman Al-Hawsawi, said that field campaigns must be intensified against irregular car washing sites run by expats especially as these sites are a source of contaminated water that in turn affects the environment and is a potential health hazard.

Osama Zaytoni, spokesman of the Secretariat of the Holy City, said field teams from each municipality are tasked with monitoring car washing on the streets, and authorities have confiscated the tools used for washing, as well as prevented the use of public water sources.