War declared on plastic bags

The Moroccan Forum for Environmental Initiatives (FMIE) is once again declaring war on plastic bags. Its members have been conducting an awareness campaign for a few days in several places in the city of Fès, particularly in shopping centres that experience high footfall during the month of Ramadan. The FMIE distributes canvas bags to citizens and encourages them to limit or even eliminate the use of plastic bags, which are responsible for pollution. It also explains to them that their production emits greenhouse gases responsible in particular for global warming, and that their recycling would consume more resources than it would restore. "80% of plastic bags are neither sorted nor recycled: between 100 and 400 years are necessary for them to degrade. As they are light, they tend to fly away and we find them everywhere in natural environments: rivers, mountains, and the sea, where they…