Youth Love Egypt Foundation (YLE) organized a clean up campaign over the weekend to collect plastic waste covering Upper Egypt’s Aswan Nile shore. With the help of fourteen volunteers, the campaign aimed to raise awareness to the side effects of plastic-based pollution. The clean-up was executed in collaboration with foundations and NGOs based in Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Ukraine and Nigeria where volunteers in the respective countries cleaned up river and sea shores to eliminate plastic waste. Youth Love Egypt Foundation is a national civic establishment which seeks to promote and maintain the country’s tourism and environmental sectors. It is most active in terms of youth-focused activities, namely in the fields of education and cultural exchange. This campaign is similar to a campaign launched by non-profit organization Bassita in collaboration with Greenish called ‘VeryNile’, which aims to help clean up the Nile River and the shores along the river in hopes that it becomes a cleaner source for water and a step towards a sustainable ecosystem. Egypt has been taking serious steps towards reducing and eliminating plastic waste and consumptions. Egypt uses 12 billion plastic bags annually which not only constitutes…
Fighting Pollution in Egypt’s South: Nile Clean Up Campaign Launches in Aswan
August 25, 2019
