Today's news network: December 19, 2009 - The World Bank: Egypt: Egypt is the solid waste management through recycling such as glass and metal, composting kitchen waste and collecting and burning methane from landfills. Tons of garbage in Cairo is the largest metropolis in Africa in this structure in the south of the city spent each day. And 'the end of the line and the beginning of another. Workers sort the garbage, take out a paper, glass and plastic. A magnetic metal sucks the line will be recycledand sold. Kitchen waste and plants are stacked in piles and compost that is sold to farmers. Cairo is to be treated with the target of 90 percent of their waste in this way. Soundbite (english) Fayez Mekhail, engineer, ECARU: trash is a treasure, when men try to take advantage of it, so it is very important for us in Egypt the use of garbage and the benefits of compost. But the disposal of waste can also cause pollution, emission of gases such as methane, which add to global warming. Work is underway inEgypt, from less to landfill through reuse of waste and more collection and flaring of methane from landfill waste. With the World Bank as a mediator, this solid waste facility, the first in Egypt to sell carbon credits to developed countries for recycling and composting will be. If only all the garbage they were made, re-used in a landfill, which would release the equivalent of just over 500,000 tonnes of emissions by more than seven years. The plant is also... Buy Bissell Home Healthy Vacuum
