3,850 abandoned cars seized from Dubai streets

Over 3,850 abandoned cars have been seized from Dubai streets since 2016, Dubai Municipality is reported to have said. Last year alone, 3,230 cars were confiscated. The Waste Management Department removed another 625 cars since the beginning of this year. The confiscated cars are held at a special unit of the municipality in Al Ghusais.

Some parked cars are deemed a safety risk or obstruction to civic work, with officials routinely rounding up several cars every month. Motorists, including those on holiday, sometimes leave behind dirty cars in public areas for extended periods of time. Others abandon their cars altogether, while some vehicles block the way of cleaning or safety crews. These cars are confiscated by municipal officers after repeated warnings.

Officials also announced that Dubai has cut down more than 50 per cent of waste generation per day in the emirate through various strategic programmes in the past four years.  “The strategic plan to deal with waste included three stages. In the first phase, in which the Municipality succeeded in reducing the volume of waste,” Hussain Nasser Lootah, director-general of Dubai Municipality informed the media there. Last year, the department cleaned 58,887km of waste. During the first three months of this year, waste workers collected 328,031 tonnes of waste from all sites and areas, covered by the waste collection and disposal services provided by the Department.