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Tunisia beach clean-up and waste management initiative
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Tunisia beach clean‑up clean-up and waste management initiative
In early August 2026, the municipalities of Tabarka and Aïn Essobh‑Nadhour Essobh-Nadhour launched a large‑scale large-scale summer clean‑up clean-up operation to address the surge of waste generated by tourists, cafés, restaurants restaurants, and hotels along streets, beaches hotels. Secretary-General Farid Riabi noted that existing resources could no longer keep pace with the waste, which posed decomposition and main entry points. The effort relied on local fire hazards. Local volunteers and tourists participated, though visitors highlighted shortcomings in a lack of sanitation facilities and daily cleaning programmes. A few days later, requested shower installations to reduce plastic bottle use. In response, the Tunisian Ministry of Tourism announced an allocated 8.425 million‑dinar allocation to reinforce beach cleanliness and infrastructure across tourist zones. The funding, drawn million dinars from the Tourist Zone Protection Fund, will finance mechanical beach‑cleaning equipment, Fund to reinforce beach cleanliness and infrastructure. Minister Sofiane Tekaya announced that a 6.75 million dinar tranche would fund site development and cleaning equipment, while 1.675 million dinars would support for 20 municipal tourism authorities, complementing authorities. This funding aims to cover 60% of the earlier municipal clean‑up actions mechanical beach-cleaning programme alongside ongoing hygiene and aiming to ensure safety inspections. By the second week of August, the Ministry of the Environment reported that nearly 6,000 m³ of waste had been collected from 152 beaches. The Rafraf beach emerged as a hygienic heavily impacted area, requiring two daily cleaning sessions to manage approximately 18 m³ of waste per day, primarily consisting of plastics, bottles, and safe summer season. Together, food scraps. To support these efforts, the local campaign Coastal Protection and Development Agency (APAL), the national funding represent a coordinated response National Waste Management Agency (ANGED), and WWF North Africa launched awareness campaigns under the slogan ‘The beach belongs to rising waste pressures all of us: one hour is enough... let's clean it!’ to promote marine preservation through scheduled events in Tunisia’s coastal tourist areas. Gammarth, Nabeul, and Sousse.
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