2023-06-14 09:04:35
Tunisia has been committed for years to fight against the spread of plastic, denounced all over the world for its harmful effects on the environment. Considered among the largest consumers of plastic bags, Tunisia recently took the decision to end the marketing of plastic bags, in accordance with the decree published in 2020, fixing the types of plastic bags whose production, import , distribution and possession are prohibited in the domestic market. Plastic, which pollutes landscapes and oceans, is certainly the most common material in our daily use. Its advantages are recognized: easy to wear, inexpensive, versatile, light and solid. Paradoxically, it is these same assets that make it very difficult to eliminate. Moreover, even after prohibition of their sale and use, they are far from having disappeared. Their employment does not weaken in the souks and itinerant shops. The alternatives, meanwhile, are struggling to break through. The Ministry of the Environment has promised manufacturers to guarantee the upgrading of companies to ensure the production of alternative products in order to continue their activities in the best conditions. An option rejected by the Professional Plastics Association, which aggravated the crisis. According to the spokesperson for the plastic manufacturers, Oussama Messoudi, the activity of about 80 plastic factories in Tunisia has been suspended for about three months from the application of the government decree n ° 32 of 2020. And to add that the adaptation of the machines available, currently, at the level of the factories to produce bags of 40 microns is technically impossible, adding that these units are of large size and require a minimum investment of approximately 2 million dinars for the equipment. About 80 factories specializing in the manufacture of plastic bags, including 45 belonging to Conect, operate in Tunisia and generate about three thousand direct and indirect jobs.
It goes without saying that the regulations in force and the support program for manufacturers are part of a global strategy aimed at reducing waste at source, developing the circular economy and the green economy. , the establishment of national implementation plans and effective monitoring, evaluation and transition tools. Environmentalists, on the other hand, continue to warn that the fight against plastic pollution is an indispensable and urgent necessity. Something for which the public authorities, whose objective is to preserve the environment and public health, have opted for the development of recycling and recovery sectors, while reducing the incineration and burial of waste. According to the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Tunisia’s blue economy is losing more than $20 million a year due to the effects of plastic pollution. In addition, Tunisia dumps more than 8,500 tonnes of plastic in the Mediterranean each year, 33% of which returns to its shores. 11% of this plastic waste is submerged, 33% at sea and is discharged on the coast and 56% remains on the surface of the sea.
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