Now It Is an Old Garbage Fill – Soon It Will Be a Solar Farm

A disused garbage landfill in the emirate Sharjah, UAE, will be converted into a solar-power farm, the first project of its kind in the Gulf region.

The waste-management firm Bee’ah – which means environment in Arabic – plans to produce more than 42 megawatts a year from this transformed landfill located near Dubai.

The project is an eco-friendly step meant to reduce the country’s dependency on fossil fuels. Other solar-power facilities are being built in the neighboring emirates of Abu Dhabi and Dubai.