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    Mauritania is a lower-middle income country in West Africa with a population of around 4.5 million people. Over half of Mauritanians live in urban areas, including over 1 million in the capital city of Nouakchott. Mauritania generates around 202,000 tons of municipal solid waste per year, of which plastic waste accounts for around 9%. Most of Mauritania's plastic waste (around 82%) is inadequately managed. The country has banned plastic bags and relies on legislation from 2000 regarding environmental management and waste.

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    Mauritania is a lower-middle income country in West Africa with a population of around 4.5 million people. Over half of Mauritanians live in urban areas, including over 1 million in the capital city of Nouakchott. Mauritania generates around 202,000 tons of municipal solid waste per year, of which plastic waste accounts for around 9%. Most of Mauritania's plastic waste (around 82%) is inadequately managed. The country has banned plastic bags and relies on legislation from 2000 regarding environmental management and waste.

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    Mauritania is a lower-middle income country in West Africa with a population of around 4.5 million people. Over half of Mauritanians live in urban areas, including over 1 million in the capital city of Nouakchott. Mauritania generates around 202,000 tons of municipal solid waste per year, of which plastic waste accounts for around 9%. Most of Mauritania's plastic waste (around 82%) is inadequately managed. The country has banned plastic bags and relies on legislation from 2000 regarding environmental management and waste.

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    Mauritania

    Indicator Data

    Population, 2019 (no.) 4,525,696


    Population density, 2018 (people 4.27
    per sq. km of land area)
    Coastal population, 2014 (no.) 1,005,481
    Share of people living in urban 54.5
    areas, 2019 (%)
    Total MSW generated, 2014 202,274
    (tons/year)

    Socioeconomic Profile

    Mauritania is a lower-middle-income country in West Africa bordered by Western Sahara/Morocco,


    Algeria, Mali, and Senegal. Its economy is dominated by agricultural production and extractive industries
    such as oil, gold, and copper.1 The country comprises 15 administrative regions2 and runs a presidential
    republic system of government.

    Mauritania’s overall GDP (PPP) in 2019 was approximately $23.5 billion and it reported a GDP (PPP) per
    capita of $5,197.3, 4 Though Mauritania has an area of 1,030,700 km2, its population is only 4,525,696
    (2019) and it has a population density of 4.27 people per km2 (2018).5 The majority of Mauritania’s
    residents—54.5 percent of the total population (2019)—live in urban areas.6 In 2014, just over 1 million
    of Mauritania’s residents, resided along the country’s coastline,7 particularly in the capital city of
    Nouakchott.

    Plastic Industry and Ecosystem

    In 2018 and 2019, Mauritania had no domestic resin production or conversion. Similar to its regional
    neighbors, Mauritania is a net importer of plastics. In 2019, 9.2 million kg of plastics were imported into
    the country, with PE and PP making up about 94.3 percent of the imports.8 Only 980,560 kg of plastics
    were exported from Mauritania that same year, 90.4 percent of which were classed as scrap plastic.9

    1
    CIA, The World Factbook: Mauritania (Langley, VA: CIA, 2021), https://www.cia.gov/the-world-
    factbook/countries/mauritania/#economy.
    2
    Ibid.
    3
    GDP, PPP (constant 2017 international $) and GDP per capita, PPP (constant 2017 international $).
    4
    World Bank Group, “World Development Indicators,” 2020.
    5
    Ibid.
    6
    Ibid.
    7
    Jambeck et al., “Plastic Waste Inputs from Land into the Ocean.”
    8
    UN Comtrade, “UN Comtrade Database,” 2019.
    9
    Ibid.
    Solid Waste Management

    Mauritania generates 0.5 kg of MSW per capita per day, amounting to an overall daily MSW generation
    of 502,741 kg.10 About 82.4 percent of MSW generated in Mauritania is inadequately managed.11

    Plastic waste accounts for about 9 percent of MSW arisings, with a daily generation rate of about 45,000
    kg, of which 82 percent is inadequately managed12; 900 kg/day of plastic waste is noted to leak into the
    environment.13

    Legislation, Policies, and Other Initiatives

    The government ministry responsible for municipal waste management in Mauritania is the Ministry of
    Environment.14 Currently, waste management in Mauritania is driven by the following law:

    • Law No. 2000-045: This law spells out the general principles of Mauritania’s national policy on
    environmental management and includes waste management.15
    In 2012, the government introduced a decree—Decree No. 2012-157—that banned manufacture, use,
    and import of plastic bags.16

    10
    Jambeck et al., “Plastic Waste Inputs from Land into the Ocean.”
    11
    Ibid.
    12
    Ibid.
    13
    Ibid.
    14
    GIZ, Report on the Solid Waste Management in Mauritania (Tunis: GIZ, 2013), https://www.resource-
    recovery.net/sites/default/files/mauritanis_ra_ang_web_0.pdf.
    15
    Chatham House, “Policies.”
    16
    Ibid.

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