(MENAFN- The Peninsula) The Peninsula
Doha: The General Cleanliness Department at the Ministry of Municipality and Environment made many important achievements during 2017, which can be summarised as follows:
A total of 10,209 new garbage containers were placed across the country.
In all, 170 new shaded cleaning trolleys were provided to protect workers from sun.
250 garbage containers were placed at the beaches of the country.
The waste sorting programme was organised in 200 schools and government institutions. Under the programme, many activities were held to educate students about waste sorting.
A total of 80 billboards were installed at beaches in different locations of the country.
An advanced system of high-tech wireless communication devices for general cleaning operations was installed and it was connected to the internal network of the Ministry of Municipality and Environment
An underground garbage container system was implemented as a pilot project.
The General Cleaning Complex was opened in the Industrial Area, which contains five residential buildings for workers, nine housing units with the capacity to accommodate 1,320 individuals, a separate building for single employees and 24 family flats, parking lots to accommodate 679 machines and equipment in addition to an administrative building and some other service facilities.
North and northwest beaches were cleaned were oil residues and other waste were removed from a stretch of over 65km. This two-month cleaning campaign is still going.
Cleaning services were provided to a total of 85,089 assembly points across Doha.
A total of 1,462 violations of the law of public hygiene were caught and the violators were referred to the municipalities concerned for legal actions.
The General Cleanliness Department removed 879,916.91 tonnes of household waste, 367,585.74 tonnes of solid waste, 70,619.16 tonnes of construction waste, and 364,598.44 waste of trees and other waste and sent them to the waste management centres.
The General Cleanliness Department removed 91,649 used tyres.
The General Cleanliness Department removed 5,565 carcasses of the animals.
A total of 8,273 requests for cleaning submitted by the people through various media sources were entertained.
General cleaning services were provided to 2,370 winter camps set up under camping season 2016-2017 across the country for a period of six months in coordination with the authorities concerned in the Ministry of Municipality and Environment.
Cleaning campaigns are being held daily and on weekly basis at all beaches, islands and ports in the country, where waste in large quantities like wood, used refrigerators, steel barrels, fishing nets are removed. Wastes floating on the sea surface was also removed and abandoned boats were issued warning.
A total of 19 boats, six traditional boats (sanabik) and 75 gargur boats were removed from Al Shamal Port.
Cleaning services were provided to all venues hosting National Day celebration programme and picnicking places during the Eid as well as to sport avenues.
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