منطقة الجوف-جامعة الجوف

Introduction

The vision 2030 of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is to care more about the environment by reducing any contamination that can be affected our environment. For that reason, reducing solid waste from landfills will help to decrease contamination in air, water and soil which is one of the most harmful pollutions on earth. Dropping plastics wastes by creating green energy is a new technic that developed countries are using nowadays to decrease the negative impacts to the Earth. To achieve the same goals as many of the developed countries reached, KSA have to be in the pathway and involve all residencies to help have green save planet to live in. Establishing new plants to create energy from plastics wastes is required in the KSA to have new source of oil and to contract the environment pollution.

By 2030, Saudi Arabia intends to divert 60 percent of construction and demolition waste from landfills — recycling 12 percent, reusing 35 percent and treating 13 percent.  Moreover, it plans to divert 100 percent of municipal solid waste from landfills through recycling 82 percent of this waste, and processing 19 percent to use as energy sources (waste-to-energy).

Moreover, as part of its National Transformation Program, Saudi Arabia has launched a system for municipal waste management in order to tackle all types of solid wastes, including general solid wastes such as construction debris, medical waste, hazardous waste, asbestos waste and used oils.  Opportunities for technology owners and service providers include comprehensive solutions for material recovery facilities, solutions to treat hazardous waste, recycling waste and converting them into valuable resources or raw materials, engineering and construction services focused on recycling facilities and technologies, and automation and Artificial Intelligence solutions.

As a result, JOUF university provides major steps to achieve the Saudi Arabia environmental plan including:

Educate students, staff, faculty and the community about how harmful plastic to environment through different resources are.

Encourage people in Saudi Arabia to reduce, reuse and recycle the plastic products.

Promote public to collect plastic waste and exchange it at the recycling plants for money or discount vouchers.

Qurayyat Science and Literature holds various events on the occasion of Environment Week.
The Faculty of Science and Arts in Qurayyat in its two parts interacted with the Environment Week to raise awareness of the importance of environmental balance and the damage caused by pollution, through a number of events, namely:

Raising the awareness of students at the beginning of the lectures on the importance of afforestation, maintaining the cleanliness of the environment, encouraging the use of alternative energies, recycling waste, and placing awareness leaflets at the entrances of the college about the environment.

Implementation of a public lecture entitled: "Water pollution and its harmful effects", presented by Dr. Karam Saif Al-Nasr Suleiman.

Implementation of a public lecture entitled: "Waste Recycling and its Environmental and Economic Importance", presented by Dr. Salwa Gramion.

Establishment of a corner in the college, which contained artistic participations of male and female students, represented in photographs and artistic drawings about nature.

The activities were followed by the Dean of the College, Dr. Meshal bin Mohammed Al-Anzi, the Vice Dean of the College, Dr. Radhi bin Nasser Al-Ruwaili, and the Vice Dean of the College, Dr. Sahar Abu Salem.

The events saw active participation from male and female students and faculty.

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In cooperation with the Deanship of Student Affairs: Qurayyat Sciences and Literature, a campaign is organized to raise awareness of the harms of plastic use
The College of Science and Arts in Qurayyat in cooperation with the Deanship of Student Affairs organized an awareness campaign entitled (Plastic Damage), with the aim of protecting the environment, raising awareness among students of plastic damage and moving to use safer alternatives to the environment and human health.

The campaign included a range of events:

Placing awareness boards at the entrances to the college, showing the harms of using plastic bags, as they are difficult to decompose, and emit from burning toxic gases that affect human health and the environment, and their dumping in the seas and rivers affects aquatic organisms, and leads to the death of quantities of them. They also react to the nutrients they store in them, once exposed to heat.

Allocate a part at the beginning of the lectures to educate students about the importance of preserving the environment using environmentally friendly bags that can be rotated instead of harmful plastic bags, such as paper and woven bags.

Prof. Dr. Suhair Al-Gharbi conducted a public lecture on the harms of storing food in plastic containers, and provided health advice to the consumer useful in reducing these risks.

In addition to the student participation in the campaign from male and female students, and some of them prepared a video about the dangers of plastic.

The campaign was characterized by good interaction and received continuous follow-up from the Dean of the College, Dr. Meshal Al-Anzi, and Dr. Meshal Al-Anzi. Radhi Al-Ruwaili, Vice Dean of the College.

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Lecture entitled: Plastic and its impact on the environment
The Scientific and Cultural Activity Committee (Student Section) at the Faculty of Science invites you to a lecture entitled: Plastic and its impact on the environment on Sunday 7/3/2021 at 12 noon.

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