Waste sorting at source for households begins – The Peninsula

Waste sorting at source for households begins – The Peninsula

Doha, Qatar: The Ministry of Municipality represented by the General Cleanliness Department has provided 1,900 containers to households for disposing of recyclable materials and organic waste separately in Onaiza region to mark the beginning of the second phase of the waste sorting at source programme.

The grey containers are for recyclable materials such as glass, plastic, papers and metals and the blue containers are for food waste and cleaning materials.

The Ministry urged people to make an active contribution to achieve the Qatar National Vision 2030 by implementing its strategy in the field of public hygiene and successfully implementing the integrated programme for sorting waste at source by throwing waste in the designated containers.

In October, Onaiza households received 950 grey containers and an equal number of blue containers.

The waste sorting at source programme is being implemented in Umm Lakhba, Madinat Khalifa (south), Al Markhiya and Nuaija in November 2023 where the households receive two types of containers.

It is an integrated national programme based on the idea of separating recyclable materials from other waste in a blue container, in order to develop and modernise public hygiene services to keep pace with the urban renaissance of the country and achieve integrated and sustainable development