Plastic pollution continues to cost on average 0.8%, per year, of their GDP in the countries of the MENA region, according to a study that the World Bank has just published.
This study shows that the high levels of marine and coastal pollution in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) constitute a serious threat to the blue economy, an essential engine of economic growth in the region. Thus, a resident of the MENA region rejects on average each year more than 6 kilograms of plastic waste in the ocean.
The proliferation of single -use plastics as well as poor collection and management of waste inland, are the main factors of marine and coastal plastic pollution.
