A most paradoxical situation in Sidi Bennour. The capital of the Doukkala, which wants to be as competitive as the major cities of the Kingdom, still finds itself incapable of getting rid of its household waste. While waiting for better days, waste piles up at street corners.

The observation does not date from today. Citizens, however, agree to regret the good old days when each neighbourhood had its own collection attendant. They also agree that the city no longer deserves its name of city, because it continues to crumble under household waste: foul odours, polluted water in shanty towns and other popular neighbourhoods, waste littering the sidewalks and roads, etc. Inhabitants must avoid obstacles and hold their noses to circulate in certain neighbourhoods of the city. Certain streets, near the headquarters of the Imam Ghazali high school in the Karia city or the Souk Atlat square, are even deprived of their right to the collection and removal of garbage. The trucks responsible for collecting household waste do not even pass by.

In other neighbourhoods of the city, one must wait for days and days for the trucks to pass to collect household waste? The population also denounces a lack of bins in the streets as well as the regular presence, outside of strike periods, of garbage and torn bags that permanently litter the road.

Let's not talk about the shortage of dump trucks, the lack of maintenance of existing ones which leave behind them a foul odour, the non-respect of the clauses of the specifications, etc. All this exposes to the light of day the dysfunctions of the Casa Technique company in charge of waste collection in the city of Sidi Bennour. It would be necessary beforehand to return to a healthy situation and ensure respect for the clauses of the specifications, to finally reconnect with the good management of the public service, while ensuring that this management is modern.

Recently, garbage collectors of the company claimed the Eid Al Adha bonuses, which created an untenable situation in terms of the distribution of bags and for the campaign to evacuate the mountains of garbage that littered almost all the neighbourhoods of the city during the holidays.

-* The substances included in household waste can have pathogenic effects, individuals being able to be affected by different routes:

-* Direct route: contact or ingestion.

-* Indirect routes: inhalation, ingestion of water or contaminated organisms.

-* Dust and micro-organisms diffused in the air can affect the respiratory tract or tissues (mycoses), but can lead to even more serious conditions: typhoid, malaria, hepatitis, typhus, cholera, dermatoses, gastrointestinal diseases, etc.