Morocco Country Profile on SWM

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Country profile on the Solid Waste Management situation in Morocco (2010)
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Country report on the Solid Waste Management in Morocco (2010)
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Population (2009):	31.8 million
Household waste generation (2009) (HSW):	5 million tons in urban areas
Per capita HSW generation (2009):	0.76 kg/day (urban) 0.3 kg/day (rural)
HSW generation growth:	2.8%
Medical solid waste generation:	6,000 T/yr
Industrial solid waste generation:	1.57 MT/yr
Hazardous industrial waste generation:	256 kT/yr

Municipal Waste:
HSW collection coverage:	82% in urban areas
Final destination of HSW:	Composted: Less than 1% Recycled: About 33% of the recyclable part (i.e., 10% of the total deposit) Controlled landfills: 28%, Uncontrolled dumps: 62%, Recycled: 10%. Forecasts for controlled landfills: 53% end of 2010, 64% in 2011, and 100% in 2020
Number of controlled landfills Rehabilitated:	15 : Rehabilitated 3 : Under construction 10 : Operational 50 : Programmed 2010-2020
Hazardous and industrial Waste:
Number of industrial waste treatment units:	Operational : 16
Types of medical waste treatment:	20 grinders – sterilizers acquired by hospitals 6 waste treatment systems of private care (concession)
Cost of environmental degradation in relation to waste:	1.7 Billion Dhs, or 0.5% of GDP

National Program of household and similar waste (Programme National des Déchets Ménagers et assimilés, PNDM): 2008 to 2023
National Master Plan for hazardous waste management initiated in 2007
Strategic Studies: National Strategy (2008), Private Sector Participation (2008), Development of the recycling industry (2005), Tax system related to SWM (2008), Outreach and Communication Program, Social support program for waste pickers,
Financial sustainability study of SWM.

General legal framework
- Law on the management of Solid waste
- Decree 2-07-253 on the classification of solid waste
- The decree of 7 January 2010 on administrative procedures and technical requirements for landfills
Legal framework specific to certain types of waste
- Decree 2-09-139 on the management of medical and pharmaceutical waste
- Decree 2-03-538 on the modalities of preparing the national master plan of hazardous waste

Household waste:
- Municipalities: Responsible for the management of municipal waste
- The Department of the Interior / the General Directorate of Local Government (Direction Générale des Collectivités Locales, DGCL) / the Directorate of Water and Sanitation: Technical and financial support
- The Department of Energy, Mines, Water and the Environment through the Department of the Environment: Coordination, planning and regulation.
Industrial waste:
- Industrialists: responsible for the management of waste products.
- The Ministry of Industry, Trade and New Technologies: The promotion of waste recycling options, and control and monitoring of cross-border flows
Medical waste: Healthcare facilities are responsible for the management of their waste products

SWM Financing
- Taxes under local taxation
- Subsidies from the general State Budget
- The Municipal equipment fund (fond d’équipement communal, FEC)
- The Mechanisms for clean development (mécanismes pour un développement propre, MDP)
Costs of waste management
- Costs vary depending on the municipality
- Average cost of collection to disposal / treatment: 440 DH (taxes included) / ton
- Average cost of cleaning - collection - transfer: 370 DH / ton
- Average cost of burial: 70 DH / ton
- Cost of disposal of medical and pharmaceutical waste: between 5000 and 9000 DH / ton

Waste collection affects approximately 60% of the urban population, and this is done by private operators
- Landfilling: 50% of the urban population is served, and this is done by private operators. 80% of the current market (collection and landfilling) is held by four subsidiaries of international groups
Types of contracts:
- For collection: Outsourcing management contracts with a major part of the investment from the subcontractor, and a part from the municipality
- For disposal: Contracts of the BOT type for the new CETs (engineered landfills)

Policy and Planning
- Preparation of master plans for provincial and regional household waste management
- Adoption of a regional management of AHW (collective Landfills)
- Planning and development of recycling branches
Strengthening Financial
- Improved funding and cost recovery mechanisms
- Revision of rules for payment of private operators
- Establishment of financial mechanisms to support private investment projects for recycling and recovery
- Improving conditions for the mobilization of additional financial resources through the promotion of channel management and the development of Mechanisms for clean development
Regulatory Framework
- Strengthening the legislative framework by the adoption of other legislation relating to waste management
- Implementation of the decrees issued
- Establishment of emission standards related to treatment
Monitoring contracts
- Establishment of appropriate structures of control, and monitoring for assessing the performance of the private operators
Control and monitoring
- Strengthening the capacity of municipalities so that they can adequately carry out their monitoring and supervision functions of the subcontractors’ performance
Awareness raising
- Establishment of a permanent awareness raising policy

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