SHARJAH will soon be home to the Gulf’s first road made from recycled rubber.

Bee’ah, the Sharjah Environment Company, which is set to pour the first road, is hoping it will become standard in Sharjah and across the UAE.
The top 20 per cent of the road will be made of rubber and such construction will be around 30 per cent cheaper than conventional methods, according to Bee’ah.
The rubber road, the company says, has a number of benefits too: the traction between the car and road increases; it increases driver safety and cuts noise; they generally require less maintenance and last up to twice as long as conventional roads.
Bee’ah, which is working with the directorate of Public Works in Sharjah on this first test, is a private-public partnership, which is 50 per cent owned by the Sharjah government, and launched its tyre recovery facility (TRF) in the first quarter of this year. It currently has eight million tyres at its landfill site in Sharjah and 3,500 to 4,000 tyres are delivered every day for recycling.
The first rubber road will be located in the industrial area of Sharjah and it is estimated the 10-km test road will be completed towards end of this year.