Amman Chamber of Industry Board member Dima Sakhtian stressed the importance of activating cooperation with regional and international support entities, to help national industries manage industrial waste of all kinds, especially since many factories face difficulties in providing funding to implement Requirements required by laws on environmental protection and waste management.

"The goal of strengthening environmental management in Jordan is to help Jordanian factories meet the challenges of air and water pollution and waste management in Jordan," she said. The chamber will cooperate with the Royal Scientific Society in implementing this project, which is carried out within the framework of the Free Trade Agreement between Jordan and the United States of America.

For his part, The Vice President of Consulting and Studies at the Royal Scientific Society, Engineer Rafat Assi, explained that within the framework of the project will implement a set of technical services for the 18 factories to be selected, where the services will include analysis of the gap between the current environmental performance of the plant and the best Possible performance levels, identifying low-cost development and improvement opportunities, identifying opportunities for cooperation and technology transfer with U.S. companies, building partnerships, identifying the best available technologies in line with factory conditions and giving alternatives to reduce melasma.

Assi pointed out that as a result of these services, the factories to be covered by the project will get the opportunity to identify the best solutions and technologies for reducing the pollutants released from them and the possibility of finding investment opportunities to use those technologies, pointing out that the project operators will organize many of the Training workshops, scientific visits and wave panel discussions with specialized U.S. companies to share experiences to promote environmental management in Jordan.

The first secretary and regional environment officer at the U.S. Embassy in Amman, Hal Konstantin, noted the ongoing cooperation between the Scientific Society and the U.S. Embassy in implementing multiple programs in the field of environment.

Konstantin said the project seeks to share experiences and experiences to develop the performance and competitiveness of Jordanian industries in order to serve the goal of enhancing environmental management in the Kingdom.

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