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A completely different problem becomes visible during day light. There is loads of plastic garbage along the roads, at the boundaries of towns, at beaches, virtually everywhere and of course in the ocean. It is very disturbing seeing how this fascinating landscape drowns in trash because there is no environmental awareness and no infrastructure. For sure tourists and also windsurfers add to the problem – along the cliffs on Moulay you find besides countless plastic bags and bottles a lot of broken windsurfing equipment. Some of the torn sails get reused as wind shelter but a lot of the broken stuff just gets swept or blown in between the rocks and waits to get rotten in the years to come.
At some point these impressions made us doubt if it makes any sense to put the empty drinking bottles into the garbage can at all or just throw it on the beach, where it would end anyhow despite the detour through the garbage can.
It is no secret anymore, the plastic in the oceans is an enormous problem because of its bad degradability. Partially this is not just a visible problem but also can be smelled when you pass the trash too close.
Smell is the only problem that you have to face when visiting the fish market in the ancient harbour of Essaouira. From fishing boats, that we would not even dare to use on the local pond, hosts of helpers unload loads of boxes with freshly caught fish in all kind of variations, that later gets sold at the other side of the harbour during the heat of the midday sun. If only smell could be transported via text….
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