The Municipality of Abu Dhabi City is continuing its campaign to educate community on the importance of cleanliness in streets and neighborhoods, shunning bad habits, and complying with governing laws ’&’ rules in place in order to ensure better quality of life and sustainable environment for the residents of Abu Dhabi.

The Municipality has started distributing awareness leaflets in Arabic, English, Urdu and Bengali languages to taxi drivers and passengers in cooperation with the Tax Transport Organizing Centre, for maintaining the cleanliness of the city and refraining from bad habits of throwing waste at wrong places, and dropping cigarette butts & chewing gum on the ground, sidewalks, and spitting on the streets and roads.

Khalifa Mohammed Al Rumaithi, Director of Public Health confirmed that the Municipality of Abu Dhabi City is continuing its media awareness campaign, which includes printing of thousands of awareness brochures in four languages, designed to eliminate negative practices that would harm the environment and public health of members of the community as well as the appearance of the city of Abu Dhabi.

"Maintaining the cleanliness of the city with all its service and tourist and recreational facilities is one of the most important priorities of the Municipality of Abu Dhabi City. The Public Health Department is considering contemporary concepts of cleanliness for the city and promoting the principle of community participation for disseminating the culture of community participation so as to maintain beauty and cleanliness of the city.

"Launching such campaigns was part of the strategy of the Municipality of Abu Dhabi City to achieve high proportions of cultural and aesthetic scenes for the cities, streets and public utilities, where this approach was supported by the Municipality in cooperation with its strategic partners and through harnessing the technical and material potentialities to establish standards of public hygiene," said Al Rumaithi.

The Head of Health Control Section Musabbah Al Kaabi handed over to Mohammed Hussain Al Hosani, Director of Licensing ’&’ Franchising, the awareness regulations relating to Drivers Lectures Section.

The Municipal regulations impose instant fines ranging from 100 to 500 dirham against anyone who spits, throws cigarette end, or drops chewing gum on the streets of Abu Dhabi city, besides subjecting the offender to legal questioning. The fine will be 100 dirham against anyone who spits on Abu Dhabi streets, 500 dirham against dropping chewing gum on streets, 200 dirham for throwing cigarette end, and 500 dirham for throwing waste.

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