Muscat: Oman Environmental Providers Holding Firm (be’ah) commissioned some 2.2 million tonnes of latest engineered landfill capability throughout 2025 and is creating an additional 3.4 million tonnes at Thamrait, as waste volumes throughout its nationwide community continued to climb, in response to the corporate’s newly printed 2025 Sustainability Report.
Municipal strong waste obtained rose to 2.88 million tonnes through the 12 months, up from 2.57 million tonnes in 2024, whereas industrial waste consumption greater than tripled to 43,216 tonnes from 12,649 tonnes a 12 months earlier, the report’s information appendix reveals.
The most important accomplished growth was at Tahwa Landfill, the place a brand new engineered cell added 1.9 million tonnes of disposal capability supported by a 5,000-cubic-metre leachate evaporation pond. The venture was delivered forward of schedule and totally commissioned, the report stated. At Izz Landfill, the closure of Cells 1 and 2A was mixed with a first-phase growth of Cell 4 that added 300,000 tonnes of capability, whereas the closure of Cell 2 at Barka Landfill included the commissioning of a devoted biogas extraction and assortment system.
The continuing Thamrait Landfill Cell 2 growth — the biggest within the programme at 3.4 million tonnes — incorporates a ten,000-cubic-metre evaporation pond, groundwater monitoring wells and a everlasting leak detection system.
The growth drive builds on a decade-long transformation of the sector that has seen 317 historic dumpsites closed and 35 crucial websites rehabilitated, with disposal now concentrated in 11 engineered landfills served by 23 switch stations.
In industrial waste, the Al Duqm facility obtained 32,400 tonnes of the nationwide whole, with Suhar dealing with 10,400 tonnes and the not too long ago developed Raysut web site 426 tonnes. Round 40,400 tonnes have been processed through the 12 months. Development of Section 2 of the Industrial Waste Remedy Facility at Suhar, which is able to add physical-chemical remedy and incineration items, reached 47 per cent general completion, with engineering 82 per cent superior. The corporate’s accredited laboratory lower evaluation turnaround instances from 21 to 14 days and expanded its ISO/IEC 17025-accredited scope by 21 parameters.
The report additionally detailed progress on the Nationwide Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials (NORM) Facility in Bahja, mandated by the federal government in September 2024 to centralise the remedy and disposal of radioactive waste from oil and gasoline operations. Development is deliberate to start within the third quarter of 2026, with operations focused by the tip of 2028. A symposium on built-in radioactive waste administration, co-organised with the Atmosphere Authority in collaboration with the Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company, was held in Muscat in December 2025.
In healthcare waste, be’ah handled about 3,961 tonnes collected from 2,165 establishments nationwide, utilizing autoclaving for two,652 tonnes and incineration for 1,309 tonnes at its Liwa, Al Amerat and Thamrait amenities. Providers have been prolonged to veterinary clinics through the 12 months, whereas a CRM integration initiative lower service response instances from 4 days to at least one.
Round financial system initiatives featured throughout particular waste streams. Of some 3 million tonnes of building and demolition waste obtained, 2 million tonnes have been processed via 5 crushers for reuse as backfilling, sand and mixture. Shredded end-of-life tyres are being equipped to Oman Cement Firm as various kiln gasoline underneath a strategic settlement, whereas inexperienced and ponderous waste offtake preparations directed materials into composting, biochar and animal feed manufacturing. An extra 83,196 tonnes have been collected from Petroleum Improvement Oman concession areas, practically 60 per cent of it building and demolition materials.
The operational push comes as be’ah completes the transition of waste assortment companies to municipalities, recorded as a 2025 milestone, refocusing the corporate on downstream infrastructure, remedy capability and useful resource restoration in step with Oman Imaginative and prescient 2040.
