Facing growing waste dumping practices, governorates of Oman decided to benefit from the expertise of a specialised company such as be'ah, to manage waste while recycling it, hence benefiting from it locally and achieving the principles of environmental sustainability such as reducing the pressure on the extraction of land resources.

Prior to 2020, municipal solid waste management was the responsibility of various municipalities, instead of specialised international companies. But, in various governorates of the Sutanate, practices of littering and throwing municipal waste outside the designated containers were increasing, alongside tampering with containers, throwing the remains of slaughtered animals on public roads, constituting a burden on the government necessitating help from specialised companies in solid waste management.

After over four years, Oman Environmental Services Holding Company (be’ah) has completed taking over the municipal waste management services from all the governorates in Oman. Since 2015, the company has taken over the management of municipal waste services from all over the sultanate, one governorate after another. 

It is a Royal Decree (46/2009) which assigned the company the ability to take over the waste management sector. Strategic plans were implementated during the period from 2012 to 2015, which aimed to restructure and privatise the sector and create the infrastructure to reduce the impacts resulting from the traditional practices of solid waste management.

After this period, followed the second phase from 2016 to 2020, which was to implement long-term plans and implement sustainable waste management practices and improve waste management and operation processes to align with international standards.

Nowadays, the municipality takes care of the general cleaning operations in residential and commercial areas, whereas be'ah transfers the waste - agricultural, solid, construction, dead animals and electrical residues

The completion of the transfer of the municipal waste management has now reached a rate of 100% in all the governorates since the company began its first take over in December 2015.

Photo found on be'ah website