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Workers sort through sacks of plastic waste at a workshop of the startup company “TileGreen”, where it is recycled into eco-friendly interlocking tiles used in outdoor walkways, in the Ashir min Ramadan (10th of Ramadan) industrial city, about 60 kilometres east of Egypt’s capital. (Photo by Ahmed HASAN / AFP)

Out of Nile, into tile: Young Egyptians battle plastic plague

January 20, 2023
by Tulip Naksompop Blauw
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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….

The carriages carrying 22 ancient Egyptian royal mummies depart from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on April 3, 2021, during a parade on their way to their new resting place at the new National Museum of Egyptian Civilisation (NMEC) about seven kilometres south in historic Fustat (Old Cairo). (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)

‘Golden Parade’ carries pharaohs to new home in Egyptian capital

April 5, 2021
by Tulip Naksompop Blauw
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A procession of floats carried the mummified remains of 22 pharaohs, including Egypt’s most powerful ancient queen, through Cairo Saturday evening, in an eye-catching parade to a new resting place….

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Out of Nile, into tile: Young Egyptians battle plastic plague

‘Golden Parade’ carries pharaohs to new home in Egyptian capital

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