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Egypt's Waste Management Regulation Law punishes all those licensed to engage in waste management activity and fail to provide the necessary training and protection for workers.
GAFI will make it mandatory for the 2,400 oil companies operating in Egypt's investment and free zones to deliver their waste to Petrotrade.
Minister of Environment Yasmine Fouad held a meeting Monday with a number of officials to follow up on the updates of establishing the factory in Giza's Abou Rawash.
Egypt seeks to localize green industries, based on the outputs and gains of the climate summit that Egypt hosted last month
The ministry made the announcement Sunday.
The plant aims at treating municipal solid waste (MSW) and converting it into electric energy, with a capacity of converting 1,200 tons of waste per day to 30 megawatts of electricity per hour.
COP 27 President and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shokry made the statements Thursday in the opening of Climate Solutions Thematic Day.
et displats some of the conditions for the NPA to obtain permission to conduct pre-operational tests.
Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli attended the signing ceremony Sunday.
This comes as per President Abdel Fattah El Sisi's directives to establish a new system for integrated management of the municipal solid waste.
The MP underscored that such quantity is huge, given the percentage of poverty in the country, and the fact that Egypt suffers from water poverty.
The Global Environment Facility had equally granted Egypt $8.1 million to carry out the Sustainable Management of Persistent Organic Pollutants (PoPs) Project.
Minister of Local Development Mahmoud Shaarawy told press Thursday that the ministry is encouraging the private sector to join the construction waste recycling system.
Minister of Local Development Mahmoud Shaarawy stated last week that 47 million tons of waste of all types were collected nationwide in 2021.
The minister of local development disclosed the figure Wednesday.
One of the latest bids by the Egyptian government to adapt to climate change and reduce its negative impacts on the environment is implementing the first project to transform waste into energy through anaerobic gasification.
Official revealed to press Sunday part of the plan set to rehabilitate the waste management infrastructure in the country.
These projects will be a qualitative leap in the mechanisms of dealing with the waste problem, said Minister Fouad
Shaarawi asserted the key role of his ministry in implementing those projects in coordination with governorates.
The minister said the meeting aims at reviewing mechanisms of financing the first stage of the project to be carried out in seven governorates and necessary guarantees that will be offered to investors in this regard.
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