Despite a law banning plastic bags, waste continues to pollute the kingdom’s streets. Leila Benali, Minister of Energy Transition and Sustainable Development, calls for collective commitment to meet this environmental challenge.
The entry into force of law 77-15 in 2015 (zero mika), banning plastic bags, only slightly reduced their proportion of household waste (12%). This is what emerges from the response of the Minister of Energy Transition and Sustainable Development to a question from the parliamentary group of the National Rally of Independents (RNI) on the management of plastic waste. “Although we have a law, it has not been fully implemented on the ground and the use of plastics has increased, especially during the Covid pandemic,” she said.
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Leila Benali justifies these mixed results by gaps in the application of the law and exacerbated behavior during the Covid-19 pandemic. To meet this environmental challenge, she called for a collective effort. According to her, the success of the fight against plastic pollution depends as much on reforms as on citizen commitment.
“The fight against pollution and the risks linked to plastic waste is an obligation for us, because there is a United Nations resolution, 14/5, from the United Nations Environment Assembly, which commits Morocco in this context to take several measures to meet this global challenge,” she recalled.
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Leila Benali also indicated that her department has prepared the law which modifies law 28-00 with a set of very important measures in this context to reduce waste production, selective sorting, and extended producer responsibility.
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