Mazoon Electricity’s environmental campaign focuses on waste management, legislation

MUSCAT: To create awareness about environmental impact and legislation in Oman, Mazoon Electricity Company, the leading electricity provider in Oman organised an environmental campaign for the benefit of its employees and contractors.

The objective of the campaign was to raise awareness about environmental laws, reduce adverse environmental impact, encourage audience to report about environmental issues and inspire teamwork and engagement with other sectors.

The event focused on topics including reduction of environmental impact from oil leakage; hazard and non-hazard waste management; and application of environmental legislation.

A spokesperson for Mazoon Electricity said, “The environmental campaign was organised based on the company’s endeavor to operate a system that sets high standards on environment conservation, pollution prevention, resources preservation and legal compliance. All company employees and contractors abide with its policy and help reach goals by continually improving environmental performance.  As a team, we comply by surpassing standards required by the applicable environmental ordinances and fulfill all environmental requirements prescribed by the company.”

In addition to Mazoon Electricity, Subject experts from other leading partners such as Environment Authority, PDO, Oman Environmental Services Holding Company (be'ah) and Oman Electricity Transmission company spoke on topics including environmental impact from oil leakage, waste management, environmental legislation, and industrial waste segregation among others.