Recapp, the UAE’s first free-of-charge door-to-door recycling service, has been named as the collection and recycling partner of the 2022 UAE Tour alongside Al Ain Water with Agthia. 

 

Recapp will collect every plastic bottle used during the full-week event, deploying recycling bins all over the UAE to collect and ensure the recycling of the 45,600 water bottles that are being distributed by Al Ain Water.

 

Recapp’s bins and collection service will cover the full tour in every location, ranging from Hudayriyat Island in Abu Dhabi to Jebel Jais in Ras Al Khaimah. This effort will help the UAE Tour and Al Ain Water to divert plastic waste away from landfills by capturing it through Recapp’s collection service and ensuring it is properly recycled.

 

Recapp has planned the logistics of the bottle collection in order to avoid generating any waste in terms of equipment and to optimise the usage of each bin by reusing the same set of cardboard bins all over the UAE to ensure a total of 170 collections.

 

Jérôme Viricel, General Manager of Recapp at Veolia Middle East, said: “We are honoured to be the collection and recycling partner for the UAE Tour and to contribute to incorporating sustainability into this major sporting event. The Recapp door-to-door collection service is currently available in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, and our collaboration with the UAE Tour and Al Ain Water is the first step toward our ultimate goal of bringing our recycling service to the whole of the UAE.”

 

Alan Smith, Chief Executive Officer of Agthia Group, said: “We are delighted to once again partner with Recapp, highlighting and supporting our shared mission to drive environmental sustainability in the UAE. It is crucial to promote new ideas and collaborative efforts to keep our environment clean and reduce plastic waste that ends up in landfills, and to raise awareness in the community about the importance of segregation at source. We are pleased that our continuing relationship with Recapp will enable this to thrive. We fully support Recapp in their efforts to facilitate sustainable lifestyles and we look forward to our continued collaboration towards a circular economy.”

 

Recapp was initially launched in Abu Dhabi by Veolia Middle East, the benchmark company for ecological transformation. Last week, the application announced its expansion into selected areas of Dubai, namely Umm Suqeim, Jumeirah, Business Bay/Downtown, Al Barsha, MBRM City - District One - Meydan, Arabian Ranches 1, and Springs/Meadows/The Lakes.

 

Recapp empowers each individual in their recycling process by offering an easy and efficient way to schedule pick-ups for plastic bottles and aluminum cans. After segregating recyclables from general waste at home, residents can simply download the Go Recapp application from the App Store or Google Play, and schedule a pick-up time at their convenience. Recapp will then collect the recyclables from the user’s doorstep and recycle them, completely free of charge.

 

Each time a user recycles, points are accumulated based on the weight of the collected recyclables, and the user can redeem the points with Recapp’s reward partners – namely Agthia with Al Ain Water and 1971 Store, Carrefour, Upfill and De L'Arta. 

 

Since its launch in November 2020, Recapp has built a community of 15,000 registered users and collected 150 tonnes of recyclables, including transparent and opaque plastic bottles and aluminium cans.-- TradeArabia News Service