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Doha: The General Cleanliness Department at the Ministry of Municipality and Environment (MME) plans to provide small trashcans to households in a bid to scrap the existing system of garbage bins placed outside the houses to ensure hygiene and to increase the beauty of the cities.
“The project ‘cities sans garbage bins’ will be implemented at some areas in Doha on an experiment basis by the end of this year,” Safar Mubarak Al Shafi, Director of the General Cleanliness Department, told The Peninsula.
He said that under the project small trashcans of size 240 litres and 360 litres will be provided to the households.
“The trashcans will be kept inside the houses and they will be taken out in front of the houses at evening for a while when the cleaning vehicles of General Cleanliness Department passed by the areas to collect garbage,” said Al Shafi.
Safar Mubarak Al Shafi, Director of the General Cleanliness Department
He said that the project aims at increasing the beauty of cities, ensuring health and hygiene and protecting the environment. “The project will be among those unique projects implemented by Qatar in the field of collecting wastes,” said Al Shafi.
The Ministry of Municipality and Environment, he said, collects solid wastes from all over the country free of cost.
“General Cleanliness Department dispatch special vehicles for collecting solid wastes like furniture and carpets which usually are being placed besides the garbage bins,” said Al Shafi.
He added that such types of wastes increased on occasions like holy month of Ramadan and Eid when people change their furniture. “We are working to educate people to place solid wastes besides garbage bins not inside it to avoid damaging the bins,” said Al Shafi.
The Director of the General Cleanliness Department also revealed the launch new projects for sorting out paper wastes in schools and government organisations.
“An awareness campaign will be run to educate all segments of society about sorting out paper wastes so they could cooperate with the Ministry in this regards,” said Al Shafi. He said that the General Cleanliness Department will focus on sorting out wastes from main source, the initial stage of collecting wastes in coming days.
“The advanced programmes will be launched to achieve international standard in this regards,” said Al Shafi. He said that Domestic Solid Waste Management Centre at Mesaieed is the most advanced facility in the Middle East which converts waste into energy, high quality fertilizers or recycling materials.
