Muscat: Think twice before you throw a plastic bottle or an empty candy wrapper on a street in Oman. You will be fined OMR 1,000, according to Muscat Municipality.
The Municipality also informed that the fine will be doubled for offenders who are caught littering more than once.
The fines, the highest in Oman, are part of a clampdown on those who leave waste despite the availability of bins.
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“Anyone found throwing waste on the ground, (whether fenced or unfenced) open public spaces, and wadi will be penalised with a fine of OMR 1,000, and in case a repetition takes place, this fine is doubled, and the offender is granted a period of one day to transfer the waste to the places designated for it,” says Article 6 of the municipality’s administrative decision number 55/2017.
