Although there was discussion at the time about plastic wouldn't be officially outlawed until 2013. Plastic waste accounts for nearly 19% of the Emirate’s total waste and lasts up to 400 years, according to Khaleej Times. Unfortunately, litter and lack of recycling here in the Gulf, accounts for a major part of the problem. We take granted the net externalities: the secondary impacts on other living creatures, and how much our neglect to dispose of such common waste, has on the natural environment. The impact of humans has had a detrimental impact on environments, which affect, not just affect camels, but also turtles, and other marine life too. But the problem of the desert winds carry plastic shopping bags, and the plastic wastes across terra firma also extends to the waters of the Arabian Gulf itself. I can recall being quite appalled by the thought of a gentle creature like a camel, with its stomach clogged in a tight round ball of various plastics, slowly dying of hunger, trying to survive one of the most extreme environments on the planet. In fact, half of all camel deaths in the UAE are a direct result of our waste. “Hundreds of camels die each year from eating plastic bags. While there I stumbled on this Environmental display of a full sized camel covered in coloured plastic bags, and quite curious about it, read that it had been assembled and funded by the Emirate environmental agency: Environmental Agency Abu Dhabi. ![]() ![]() One very uneventful morning I wandered into one of the large shopping malls to have a coffee, before taking my son to karate nearby. Approximately six years ago I lived as an expatriate working in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.
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