The National Museum of Qatar (NMoQ) has received the Green Key certification for its continuous efforts to implement sustainability best practices, becoming the first ever museum in Qatar and the Middle East to achieve this certification.
Qatar Museums (QM) has implemented a sustainability initiative to avoid single use plastic water bottles at all QM facilities, including Museum of Islamic Arts, National Museum of Qatar, Fire Station, Sports Museum, QM Tower 1 & 2, etc.
QM has distributed free reusable water bottles to each QM employees and also provided with water dispenser machines at all appropriate places inside each QM facilities. This initiative has avoided the use of at least 250,000 water bottles per year.
● Food waste digesters are being used to divert food waste from landfill.
● We have introduced Three chamber bins for the better waste segregation.
● We have partnered with Green Brokerage Firm for recycling used oil, which they convert into bio-diesel.
● We have partnered with a local recycling firm for recycling of cartons and used papers.
● All inhouse tissue papers used are FSC certified.
● Most of our hypermarket stores are GSAS (Global Sustainability
● All our shopping bags are 100% biodegradable
● Re-usable and Paper bags
As part of Mowasalat (Karwa)'s sustainability initiatives to recycle industrial waste we recycle all our vehicle's engine oil. For used oil, our contracted licensed recycling company collects the used oil from Mowasalat site and this is safely processed at the contractor's waste treatment plant which is in full compliance with the State of Qatar's legal requirements. The used oil is then recycled into 'base oil' products. This base oil is then sold to processing industries in Qatar and even abroad to produce useful healthcare products.
● We have implemented 100% LED Lightings in all our outlets.
● We are using less emission and temperature controlled water-proofing system on roof-tops.
● The external walls of most of our projects are highly thermal-insulated with AAC Panels.
● We are using VSD Chillers to reduce the energy consumption. We are also using VSD Pumps and energy efficient motors for our operations.
● We have implemented energy optimization system (Honeywell Forge) to reduce energy consumption.
Food waste: reduction controls
1- Reduce trimming waste and organic waste
2- Proper storage / display temperature
3- Stock rotation and proper packaging
As part of Mowasalat (Karwa)'s sustainability initiatives we recycle all the used tyres of buses and taxis in an effort to reduce waste to landfill.
We generate about 11,000 waste tyres per year. All these waste tyres are donated to Qatar Racing Club to build racing track boundary.
This is an ongoing initiative which we conduct throughout the year.