Garbage everywhere in Morocco

I agree. The trash everywhere spoils the beautiful moroccan scenery. It would be a great initiative to start a campaign for cleaning the streets and figuring out a way to put more trash cans around and a system for it to be emptied and so forth. I know its kinda a long shot but not impossible.

Problem is if people took their own trash and disposed of it maybe things would improve massively.
Thankfully where I live in Morroco the area is not as described and you don't actually say which place ? Just tar all of Morroco?
Please share which town ,city you critical of? so people can actually comments or have a right of reply!?

I live in Cabo Negro just incase you were wondering.

Marrakech and the surrounding towns. El Jadida was the same.

For me its casablanca, marrakesh and agadir. And the cities inbetween those.
Tetouan area is the cleanest ive seen in all Morocco.

You are right i can't handle it anymore garbage everywhere and the smell and omg even the restaurants don't clean my country needs to clean up I'm so tired of this

So you must make suggestions to your council to start a recycling program that provide bins to households and pick up times and destinations for garbage and disposal. We are all in this together. I did it in NZ. You can do it in Morocco.

I would love to clean up my local area - but even if I collected all the rubbish together...what happens to it then? How to start an initiative and get people involved and proper rubbish removal? Often it is just burned in situ and it makes the air full of smoke and piles of smoking ash. There has to be a better way than this?!

The average Moroccan has no awareness of the common good.

Its rule is “every man for himself” that's where the rubbishes are...in minds!

I travel a lot in Morocco, and I love the country... but I hate the rubbish.  If you travel with Boraq  there isn´t much rubbish around the track except on the approach to the main stations when the train enters the urban areas.  But if you travel local trains or Atlas trains , once the train starts to slow for, or travels through, a rural station - which is kilometers away,  the plastic rubbish is  increasingly hooked on the barbed wire alongside the track and.

Often while looking out of the window the once in a while you pass an illegal dump where people have just dumped their rubbish and the authorities look the other way, A dump often starts with stone and cement waste being dumped the follows the rest of the rubbish.

Tetouan and Cabo Negro are quite clean, also Rabat and Temara ( some area's).  I see that in Rabat and Temara there are a lot of big green containers on the street which before Covid were often smelly places where stinking rubbish would pile up and rats would feast, but that was due to late collection, more containers, new collection rounds and cleaning of the containers  has resolved a lot of these issues. 

Actually if the willayas would make the effort and make people sort their trash into paper/karton, plastics and tins, green waste and everything else into the waste faction it would resolve a lot of things .

a) the green waste can be turned inot compost as fertilizer

b) the plactix and tins will be a quantity sufficient for recylclers to recycle the metals and the plastic

c) the paper can be resused to make new paper and carton products

@Mimwha

Friends, you all, out there,

thank you for this topic i fight every day...

you are totally right. i roam the country, from border to border, from North to South, i have seen every city, village, "douar", the deeper you get, the worse the situation is. In cities, there are more or less the means to "clean" the heaps and mountains of daily rubbish. In small towns, villages the situation is worse. As to small localities, like the "douars", people literally live in the middle of their trash.

There is rubbish and rubbish: the households rubbish that is disposed of in big plastic stinking, often broken, LEAKING, cans, when they exist. And the rubbish people just throw away unconsciously, from car windows, from home windows, from café terrasses, while eating and walking... and the worst of all this rubbish that stifles the country is PLASTIC of all kinds.

The responsibility is both State (local authorities) and folks' responsibility. It would take centuries to wipe out the History, and start afresh...

There is no way out! Over the last 30 years it is just from worse to worst, a nightmare for Mother Nature, for the Earth, the only Home we have.

@derekvgiroulle

Hi!

Clean places are only in strategic spots... in some big cities.

Waste sorting does not exist!

Recycling some meterials: plastic, metals, glass, etc. implies sorting! No comment.

Compost from kitchen waste to make a natural, 100% organic compost, is just unknown to people.

When i star explaining this, they just do not get it.

It would mean TOO MUCH WORK for something "useless".

etc.

Yours.

I've noticed as well in Meknes where my in laws live. Public trash bins are almost nonexistent and the vacant lots for sale are appalling. Does the kingdom actually have waste management department? Are there local dumps where trash can be taken? In the US where I live your locale either has private companies that residents have to pay for rubbish pickup or it's a service covered by state/local taxes.

This is my husband's home and inshallah the place we plan to retire. I'd love to be part of the solution. Morocco is such a beautiful place and can be even better with some dedicated people invested in its betterment.

@Yahya411 lack of education is the main problem  with these litter bugs they have not been educated to deal with their own rubbish so they are not bothered where they put it .The local councils should employ people to walk the streets and give a fine to anyone that throws litter in the streets the fines would pay the wages and if people repeatedly have to pay a fine they would stop throwing litter in the streets and anywhere else they decide to dump their rubbish .morocco is such a beautiful  country but is being spoiled by all the rubbish.