Citizens of the governorate of Sfax shared today Friday, November 5, 2021, on social networks a photo showing tons of waste that have piled up in all the roads of Grand Sfax. This photo generated vast controversy on the web and attracted the attention of a large number of Tunisians, given that these bags carry infected waste, dangerous chemicals.
It is evoked that the Acting Director-General of the National Waste Management Agency, Fayçal Bedhiafi, declared on Monday, November 1, 2021, that within two or three days, radical resolutions to deal with the waste crisis in Sfax will be announced. Bedhiafi further revealed that the expected solutions will be done with the assistance of environmental experts.
He added that the agency had decided to close the landfill in Agarab for a day or two in order to carry out technical reformations to avoid a disaster, however faced the rejection of civil society to reopen the landfill, consequently preventing trucks.
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