The industrial waste treatment facility has started operations in Suhar Wilayat in Al Batinah del Norte governorate
A primary commercial waste treatment facility, the largest of its kind in the Sultanate of Oman, began operations in Suhar Wilayat, in the northern governorate of Al Batinah.
When fully completed in several stages, tentatively until 2025, it will be supplied to treat all types of commercial and hazardous waste generated in the country.
According to Oman Environmental Services Holding Co (be’ah), the public entity that oversees counterfeit waste control in the Sultanate of Oman, Phase 1 of the Sohar facility has been completed and is now operational. It comes with 3 landfills as well as an open and closed domain for commercial waste. In Phase 2 of its development, the facility will include a forging plant as well as laboratory facilities.
Following the start of operations at the Sohar commercial waste treatment facility, a transient waste garage domain established near Liwa is being phased out, and all its stored waste will be transferred to Sohar.
Modern commercial waste treatment and disposal infrastructure is imperative to assist the expansion of a thriving commercial and production sector in the country, as well as waste-generating sectors such as oil and gas, petrochemicals and refining, mining and mineral processing, etc. In 2021, approximately 11,000 tonnes of commercial waste were obtained from the Sohar facility for repair and disposal.
be’ah describes commercial waste as “waste generated through business processes, such as waste derived from mining, oil and gas activities, and water and electric power generation,” which in most cases are also called hazardous wastes.
“In dealing with this waste stream, be’ah continues infrastructure and operations that take into account the most productive interests of Oman’s herbal environment. Throughout 2021, be’ah has continued to collaborate with leading environmental and sustainability organizations around the world to remain at the forefront of the latest commercial waste studies and practices,” said the company, which is part of the Oman Investment Authority (OIA).
Small quantities of non-hazardous commercial waste are also treated at municipal slab waste stations across the country and treated at commercial waste treatment services located in Thamrait and Duqm, in addition to Sohar.
In Duqm, where a large-scale special economic zone is being developed, be’ah and the local authority have built a waste treatment facility for municipal and commercial waste. The landfill is designed to deposit commercial non-biological waste. The facility also includes garage and commercial biowaste management spaces intended for incineration and commercial waste that require additional remediation prior to landfill. The Duqm commercial waste facility began receiving waste starting in the last quarter of 2021.
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