Morocco Tightens Plastic Bag Ban with New Law to Combat Pollution

With this new provision that is coming into force, Morocco will follow the path of several of its neighbors in an attempt to curb pollution on the continent. By making certain modifications to law 77-15, in force for more than three years, the new mechanism has come to tighten control and fight producers as well as importers of raw materials dedicated to this activity, reports 360.

According to the new range of sanctions provided for by the new text, any person producing plastic bags, without respecting the characteristics defined by the law, faces a fine of 10,000 to 100,000 dirhams. The possession, use and sale of plastic bags can result in a fine of 2,000 to 500,000 dirhams. As for the possession of raw materials, dedicated to the manufacture of plastic bags, it is punishable by 200,000 to one million dirhams.