Moroccan City’s Trash Crisis Sparks Social Media Protest Trend

Taking selfies with, as a backdrop, piles of waste. This is the new trend in Morocco, to denounce the unsanitary conditions that are reaching alarming proportions in cities. By doing so, internet users, particularly in the city of Nador, intend to sound the alarm on the disastrous and shameful state of the streets, but above all on the poor management of waste.

Under the title, "The best selfie in front of a pile of garbage," Nador’s internet users have launched a new sarcastic campaign that is gaining momentum on social networks. The objective pursued is "to alert the authorities to the deplorable environmental situation in Morocco, but above all to the dangers and diseases that the population is facing".

This is undoubtedly a civic approach which, according to the wish of its initiators, will make the authorities in question act, in order to change the situation.