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Join on Telegram Rabat – Marking Morocco’s first-ever Recycling and Waste Management (RWM) salon, the city of Tangier hosted on June 22-24 Moroccan and international sustainability enthusiasts to reward innovative ideas and discuss emerging trends, challenges, and opportunities in sustainable development.
During the conferences and panels, the professionals addressed the growing environmental issues caused by human development worldwide. The presentation of the RWM trophy, which seeks to encourage and support individuals and organizations to apply their ideas to their respective fields, completed the forum.
Mohamed Moudarir, the Director of Publication at Energy and Mines Magazine, concluded that the forum fostered discussions concerning vital subjects that apply to various groups, such as industrialists, supervisory ministries, and the government. Moudarir especially appreciated the new proposals made by the young generation.
“We discovered that there are patents, several patents of young Moroccan talents who are in the marketing stage or a development stage,” Moudarir told MWN.
Professor Mohamed Tahiri, one of the judges, expressed his excitement surrounding the rich information people shared throughout the conference and the competition. He explained to MWN that the trophy is awarded to “the best practices or the best ideas” to lead further research and development.
“It was the occasion to start a new model of management and recycling waste in Morocco,” said Tahiri.
The first RWM trophy has three categories: the Best RD Project, the Best Company, and the Best Association.
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The regional winner of the Best RD Project was Meryem Lahcini’s “Atlas Difae,” which seeks to find an ecological substitute for forest wood and coal via recycling. Lahcini has worked as an independent entrepreneur since 2021, and she was delighted to see other promising projects during the event.
“A simple message I want to send the young people is that I invite them to invest or to create recycling of waste project ideas. It’s everywhere so you have to take advantage of it,” Lahcini noted.
The national award for the Best Company was presented to “Lombrisol”, an enterprise specializing in the organic waste treatment of bio-fertilizers. Meriem Mobaligh, the recipient and representative of this award, is a Ph.D. candidate at Cadi Ayyad University majoring in environmental management.
Mobaligh told MWN that she is very pleased, especially as a woman, to be honored and recognized by the RWM trophy. “It was a very good experience that gave me the courage to continue working in this area,” she said.
Apart from the trophy participants, the ceremony moderator Mounia Elliq, a Technical Advisor to the Minister, also praised the innovative ideas which look to exact positive changes in the future.
“It was really not at all easy in the selection of initiatives, because there were a lot of very good environmental initiatives,” Elliq noted. “I was pleasantly surprised to see that there were so many skills, so many ideas, so many innovations, so much creativity, whether by young people or cooperatives.”
