The eternal blunders in waste collection

Rabat, like several cities in the Kingdom, has chosen to delegate the management of waste collection to private companies. According to a source at the City Council, the average cost of collection services is estimated at 366 DH per tonne. As for the duration of the concession contract, it varies between 5 to 7 years. However, if this management method has been able to prove itself in other cities of Morocco, the capital, for its part, seems to still suffer from its dual status which confers the management of this file on both the wilaya and the City Council. Result: faced with this administrative blur, the designated companies do not respect the specifications often enough; which gives rise to excesses like the one that occurred during the last week which saw the cessation of waste collection activity for one day (7 April) in the Hassan district, on the order of one of these companies…