1. Algeria has a waste problem. In 2018 Algeria produced 13 million tons of domestic waste, very little of which was disposed of properly, let alone recycled. The struggle already starts at collection, due to the lack of sorting bins. In 2004 the national waste agency, Agence Nationale de Gestion des déchets (AND) introduced Eco-Jem, an EPR scheme in the form of a tax imposed on containers to incentivise manufacturers to pay for a system of waste collection and recovery. However, Eco-Jem has yet to be implemented due to a lack of clarity regarding where the financial burden lays, with the producer or the In the hopes of tackling this difficult problem, one Algerian company has created what they hope will fill in the gap until Eco- Jem can be enacted.
  2. Merzouk Abdelwafi is the CEO of SARL Toptek, an Algerian company that is fighting this difficult waste collection problem with their iCollect initiative, which aims to educate the public and create easily accessible recycling containers. https://www.iswa.org/blog/algeria-fighting-packaging-waste- with-intelligence.