Nouakchott Takes a Leap: Groundbreaking Plan Unveiled to Tackle Solid Waste Management

The ministerial committee responsible for studying the “solid waste problem in the city of Nouakchott” approved a document with the aim of handling and burying solid household waste.

This came during a meeting at the Prime Minister, held by Prime Minister Mokhtar Ould Adjaye, to discuss and review a technical study presented by the protection sector, which addresses various aspects of Nouakchott’s waste.

Ould Ajay gave his instructions at the end of the meeting, “to include all the comments and proposals published by the sectors between them by next Monday at the latest, and consider the document approved by the Ministerial Committee in its final form after adding the all offers. and comments.”

According to a previous study, the volume of solid waste produced annually in Nouakchott alone totaled 261,599 tons of different types of waste, some of which are described as hazardous.

The Ministry of Environment had warned a year ago about the seriousness of the amount of waste produced every day, which has become a major environmental and health challenge in the face of increasing population growth, and the related increase and diversity in production and production patterns. consumption.