Recycling in Egypt: Why it is important and how to manage it?

World Congress and Expo on Recycling

July 20-22, 2015 Barcelona, Spain

Tarek M Heikal

Posters-Accepted Abstracts: J Environ Anal Toxicol

Abstract :

Recycling saves energy, reduces raw material extraction and combats climate change. The vast majority of studies have found that recycling our rubbish is better for the environment rather than incinerating or landfilling it. Friends of the Earth in Egypt have long campaigned for increased recycling and more recently for law requiring better doorstep recycling collections. Recycling helps us toward sustainable living that creates a cyclic way of living rather than the current linear model, and this change is essential for reducing our impact on the environment as a whole. However after an intensive waste recycling scheme, there will still be a limited amount of waste remaining that requires treating. The quantity of this waste will reduce over time, therefore ruling out large and inflexible technologies such as incineration. Many local studies and observations have clearly shown that incineration is not a climate-friendly treatment technology; however, it is still applied in rural area for agriculture wastes close to cities, so that recycling has health impact rather than saving raw materials. We have many leading immanent projects for the manufacture of paper from rice straw and others. In conclusions, the purpose of the strategy was to build an infrastructure to support a national integrated management system. The objectives of the strategy are to: eliminate the uncontrolled accumulations of solid waste; and provide safe and efficient storage, collection, transfer, and management.