Taounate, soon a city without plastic bags

Taounate will be declared a city without plastic bags by the end of next October, we learned from the province.In preparation for the 22nd Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP22), which will be organised from 7 to 18 November in Marrakech, a provincial commission has been set up in Taounate with the objective of ensuring the coordination and monitoring of the operations for the collection and definitive elimination of these plastic bags within a period of 5 months.The creation of this commission was announced on the sidelines of a campaign for the collection and incineration of plastic crates, launched on Tuesday in the Ain Aicha commune under the Taounate province.The operation to eliminate these bags, which will take place from June to the end of October, will be carried out with the participation of various public and private act…