Fez Faces Mounting Trash Crisis as Garbage Piles Up Across City

Fez is struggling to get rid of its garbage and household waste. Piles of garbage litter the interior of the new city and strategic locations just steps away from administrations and institutions, such as the Agdal train station district, where a waste focus is located just meters from the French consulate. Worse, some neighboring shops and restaurants are getting rid of their waste in an anarchic way outside the containers provided for this purpose. Similar scenes are observed on the Florence Square, in the Agdal district, not far from the Bank of Morocco. Enough to provoke the anger of social media activists.

On the web, activists have expressed their dissatisfaction with the current situation in the cultural capital of the kingdom. They have called on the authorities of Fez to take their responsibilities in order to preserve the safety and cleanliness of the city, which has experienced an unprecedented deterioration, especially in recent years.

For now, the municipality of Fez has not yet chosen the two companies that will manage the garbage and household waste. Five companies have submitted their bids to obtain the two contracts, but the municipality has not yet made a decision on the award recipients in accordance with the required conditions, we learn.

In the past, it was the Ozone company that was responsible for collecting all the city’s waste. This waste was deposited in the municipal landfill on the road to Sidi Harazem, causing disgust among visitors to the university hospital due to the odors.