Algeria: 92 pounds toxic waste seized and 29 pounds copper smuggled to Morocco

The National gendarmerie of Tlemcen province (west of Algeria) last week foiled an attempt to smuggle 29 pounds of copper and 92 pounds of used batteries across the Moroccan borders. They were directed to a workshop in the Moroccan city of Oujda, specialized in recovering metals and mining of copper from batteries constituting a danger on the population living in the borders on the background of throwing toxic waste.

• This issue –according to available information to Echorouk- comes back to information received by the regional gendarmerie in Ben Mhidi port belonging to the gendarmerie battalion in Ghazaouate (west of Algeria) about some vehicles’ passage carrying waste to be smuggled within two o’clock after midnight on Wednesday, where they seized two trucks in “Anabra”( Msirda Fawaka, six kilometres from the Moroccan borders).
• Investigations revealed that these materials have been sold to charlatans activating in many Moroccan cities. Yet, danger lies in the toxic waste from workshops- as confirmed by Echorouk sources-, which revealed that analyses which have been conducted on water samples’ from Elmouileh river in Maghnia and other samples from Boughrara dam, which is the biggest dam in the western region of Algeria, that they are contaminated, and contained with industrial toxic materials, which may lead to paralysis and even to death.
• According to Echorouk’s sources, Moroccan industrial enterprises are throwing toxic waste from their factories in Bounaime river which flees directly in Mouileh river then Boughrara dam, resulting in catastrophic summer.
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