Morocco is desperately trying to modernise. Large numbers of building projects are in progress everywhere. However, nothing seems to be happening on most of the sites: they’ve got so far and then stopped. In a few cases the developments appear to be unfinished (pic below) but are actually completed because they don’t always render walls, put in roads and clear up construction rubbish (or other rubbish), but if you’re desperate for somewhere to live that’s not so important.
Rubbish appears to be a matter of indifference to Moroccans, and it’s dumped fairly indiscriminately, but you have to look at it from their viewpoint. As an example, two weeks ago an eco-warrior at the campsite organised a beach clean-up. In a couple of hours the team of over 50 transformed the beach and each of us had filled several black bags of mainly plastic junk. The locals looked on in amazement while the eco-army swept along the strand: if Allah had decreed that the tide should wash copious quantities of rubbish onto the beach, who were they to argue? Maybe the locals were right, because two weeks later the beach was just as full of grot as before the big clean. Allah: 1, Eco-army: nil.
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