Tuesday, June 4, 2024 at 5:34 p.m.
Casablanca – A group of students from schools reporting to the regional directorate of National Education, Preschool and Sports of Casablanca, paid, on Tuesday, a visit to the waste sorting and recycling center located in the area industrial site of Sidi Bernoussi, on the occasion of World Oceans Day.
This visit, organized by the Mohammed VI Foundation for Environmental Protection, in coordination with the Regional Academy of Education and Training (AREF) of Casablanca-Settat, aims to introduce students up close to the importance of this center and the roles it plays in environmental protection.
As part of this educational visit, detailed explanations were provided to the students on this center created as part of the program to combat precariousness of the National Initiative for Human Development (INDH), as well as on its contribution to sorting and the recycling of the waste it receives every day and the stages that the collected waste follows until its final processing phase.
On this occasion, Hind El Khaoudi, responsible for managing the center, presented the latter and its mode of operation, from the reception of waste, through the sorting process, to the processing stage of household waste. , assimilated and non-hazardous industrial materials into a raw material usable in the manufacture of new materials.
Ms. El Khaoudi noted that the center, which has concluded partnerships with several important establishments in the industrial zone, aspires to double the number of its employees next year in order to develop its activity, specifying that the center employs currently 30 people.
For his part, Hassan Kartouni, regional coordinator of environmental education and sustainable development at the Regional Directorate of Sidi Bernoussi, explained that this educational visit is part of the programs initiated by the Mohammed VI Foundation for Environmental protection.
He indicated that this activity coincides with World Oceans Day, and that this visit by students to the Waste Sorting and Recycling Center aims to publicize the activities of this center and raise awareness of the need for ocean protection, adding that Morocco, which has a coastline extending over 3,500 kilometers, is working to protect the ecosystems and biodiversity of the ocean.
Built on a plot of 2,600 m2, this waste sorting and recycling center houses a sorting and recovery unit for household and similar waste as well as industrial waste (conveyors, balers, crushers, scales, bins), a platform for the treatment of organic waste and recycling into compost (two cold rooms, composting space), an administration and green spaces.
