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Asharq Al-Awsat
Asharq Al-Awsat
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Asharq Al-Awsat

Young Egyptians Battle Plastic Plague

Environmental volunteers stand atop a pyramid of compressed plastic waste collected from the Nile, in Giza near the capital on "World Cleanup Day", September 17, 2022 © Ahmed HASAN / AFP/File

Entrepreneurial young Egyptians are helping combat their country's huge plastic waste problem by recycling junk-food wrappers, water bottles and similar garbage that usually ends up in landfills or the Nile.

At a factory on the outskirts of Cairo, run by their startup TileGreen, noisy machines gobble up huge amounts of plastic scraps of all colours, shred them and turn them into a thick liquid.

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