Egypt launches the longest clean-up campaign along the Nile to break world record – Egypt Today

Egypt launches the longest clean-up campaign along the Nile to break world record – Egypt Today

CAIRO – 1 October 2022: With participation of 1,300 volunteers, Youth Love Egypt Foundation (YLE) launched the largest ever clean-up campaign of The Nile River from waste and plastic pollution, starting from Aswan in Upper Egypt to the Delta cities of Damietta and Desouq Ali, Rashid. The campaign was launched in preparation for Climate Summit (COP27) due to convene in Sharm El Sheikh on November 6-18, the YLE, an observer member of the United Nations Environment Program and an observer member of the Framework Convention on Climate Change, said in a statement. Cleaning operations were carried out via using boats, and hygiene tools to collect plastic waste floating along the Nile River, where 342 kilos of waste were collected in only Cairo Governorate. The event was organized in cooperation with the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation, the Ministry of Local Development, the Ministry of Youth and Sports, and the presidency of the Climate Summit 27, in addition to the support of the strategic partner from the Commercial International Bank, Coca-Cola representative of North Africa, partners like Thyssenkkrupp, Inovita and Green Wave. The event was attended by 7 governors, along with a number of representatives of diplomatic missions in Egypt