The exhibition accompanying the first international conference on the sustainability of natural resources, which was launched yesterday morning, Tuesday, 8/3/1441 A.H., at the university, attracted the attention of conference visitors, participants, university students and affiliates. On its first day, it hosted more than 750 visitors, who toured all corners of the exhibition, in which 6 different entities participated, including the University's College of Engineering, Qassim Municipality, the University's Sustainable Development Center, Cement Company, strategic sponsor of the conference, Alfahad Company, and Cleaning Machinery Company.

For his part, Dr. Fawaz Al-Harbi, the supervisor of the exhibition, Vice Dean of the College of Engineering at the university, explained that the exhibition, which lasted for two days during the conference, attracted visitors from university students and specialists in the field of sustainability and environmental engineering, as the exhibition focused on the experiences of government agencies and private companies in the field of recycling and sustainability of natural resources.

Al-Harbi added: The accompanying exhibition included 6 exhibitions including: A pavilion for the College of Engineering, which includes a display of student projects and scientific research, the exhibition of the Cement Company, the strategic sponsor of the conference, which presents the company's experience in preserving the environment by using alternative energy, and the pavilion of the University Sustainability Center, which shows the university's initiatives in the field of sustainability and conservation of natural resources.

The exhibition also included a pavilion for the Qassim Municipality, the supporting partner, which showcases the Municipality's modern experience in waste disposal, the exhibition of Al Fahad Company, the silver sponsor of the conference, which displays modern containers that compress and transform waste into fertilizers that can be used, and the exhibition of the Cleaning Machinery Company, which displays their experience in using modern equipment to sort waste according to the quality of the material of manufacture.

The conference, hosted by the university, aims to demonstrate the magnitude of wasted natural and economic resources and estimate the environmental cost of waste, as well as discuss the necessary measures to shift to sustainable food systems in which food waste is minimized, stimulate integration between partners from different disciplines to manage waste sustainably, and study opportunities to stimulate investment in the field of developing waste recycling technologies in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.