In a letter addressed to the municipality, several residents and activists from the Sidi Thabet delegation called for the closure of the Sidi Thabet wild dump due to “the significant decline of the environmental situation in the region, especially with the continued exploitation of green and agricultural spaces to turn them into illegal dumpsites for plant waste.
The residents voiced their support for the request for a municipal decision to shut the landfill and their rejection to expand its operation in any way,” according to what is indicated in the text of the letter.
In reply to a written question addressed by the representative of the House of People’s Representatives for Kalaat al-Andalous in Sidi Thabet, Faiçal Seghir, to the Minister of the Environment on the interstate situation of the random dump in Sidi Thabet, and about from the date of the beginning of work on the installation of a controlled sewage system in the region, the Ministry confirmed that the elimination of municipal landfills is not part of the tasks of the National Waste Management Agency, as provides for this in Chapter 20 of Law 41 of 1996, adding that the control of the elimination of this waste stipulates that local groups or municipal groups which are part of it must be accountable for the elimination of household waste.
The ministry adds in its response that, as part of backing the efforts of municipalities to clean up and rehabilitate random dumps and eliminate black spots, and at the request of the city of Sidi Thabet, the agency, operating its equipment, intervened for the benefit of the municipality over 7 days from June 12, 2023, to June 18, 2023, by removing a few black spots in the area and cleaning the paths leading to the municipal landfill.
The ministry emphasised that it was scheduled to create a unit for the treatment and recovery of household and similar waste in the north of Tunisia, in the governorates of Ariana and Manouba, with a capacity of 600,000 tonnes per year. year. Many suggested sites have been rejected (including sites in Tunis and Manouba, such as Al-Fajjah 1, Al-Fajjah 2 and Jabal Ramadi). They are currently searching for sites suitable for the nature of the project. It added that the municipality of Tunis is currently conducting studies on the realization of the household and similar waste management unit project and that the planned project concerns all the governorates of greater Tunis (38 municipalities).
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