TheMorrocan National Office of Electricity and Drinking Water (ONEE) has mobilised fishermen, civil society organisations, scientists and local farmers in awareness campaign for the protection of the coastline as part of its CSR (corporate social responsibility) in Dakhla.
The just-concludedawareness program was for 3 days,during which the initiative called “B7Arblaplastic” allowed for several activities to take place, including “creative and artistic workshops, recycling sessions and training on innovations for the preservation of the marine environment,” according to the municipal authorities.
The campaign, which took place on the beaches of PK25, OumLabouir, Moussafir and Playa Lakhira, is part of the Clean Beaches programme run by the Mohammed VI Foundation for the Protection of the Environment, and the Dakhla Coastal Environmental Monitoring project. This programme is supervised by the start-up Eagle AI, which develops solutions based on artificial intelligence (AI) to reduce plastic pollution at sea in Morocco.
In this North African kingdom, single-use plastics, cigarette butts, food packaging, plastic shopping bags and foam takeaway containers are among the main pollutants on beaches.
Recall that 28 Moroccan beaches were recently awarded the “Blue Flag” label by the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE), for their eco-responsible approach.
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