Since 2016, Morocco has banned the production and use of plastic bags. The Zero Mika (zero plastic) campaign, with its pros and cons, is still evolving in order to make Morocco a plastic-free country. Rabat – According to the Moroccan Ministry of Industry, Moroccan households consume about 25 billion plastic bags a year (2016). The ministry’s chart of plastic bags’ yearly consumption ranked Morocco second after the United States and ahead of Australia. Morocco accounts for 900 plastic bags per person. After use, the plastic waste ends up dumped in the countryside as the country lacks a waste management system for recovery and recycling. Figures presented at the “Ecocean” seminar held in Tangier on June 27, 2019, showed that Morocco produces a massive amount of plastic waste leaking into the ocean. The figures place the country in the top twenty countries for ocean pollution. 51% of the waste that is found on Moroccan beaches is plastic waste. To rid Morocco of plastic bags, the Moroccan government has opted, since July 1, 2016, for a radical solution: the prohibition of plastic bags within six months after the publication of the corresponding law. The new law came only a few ...