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Innovative agricultural waste recycling projects in Egypt
4-5-2017
In a special feature on Sunday, Al Mustaqbal newspaper brought to light initiatives for recycling agricultural waste in Egypt and turning them into innovative goods. Among these projects, are ‘Nabata’ that turns palm waste into sustainable eco-friendly products and ‘Juzoor’ which recycles date palm midribs into end wood products. A co-founder of Nabata, Islam Yassin, disclosed the main aim behind establishing the company, which is to assist the departments of agriculture and environment in the safe disposal of the waste of date palms that are considered a national wealth to the province of Aswan. Yassin maintained that his enterprise also seeks to create serious job prospects for women in the most marginalized and poor areas in Al Saeed, Egypt. His 36-women production team undergo social and technical training and rehabilitation sessions which enable them to work in an organized way, Yassin said, pointing that 3 of these women work in marketing and sales. On the Juzoor initiative, entrepreneur Mahmud Amir, said the story began 4 years ago with a group of students from Ain Sham University School of Engineering who were designing innovative machines for the recycling of agricultural waste as their graduation project. The journey of Juzoor started with expending the resourceful date palm midribs that lay in waste in the Saeed or are burned (in Egypt alone, over 370,000 tons are burned annually) for the manufacture of sustainable high quality finished wood products targeted for sale. Juzoor, he said, is currently working on demonstrating the durability of palm wood and its ability to compete, as per its distinctive design, excellence and solid nature, in the local and external markets, namely in the GCC states. (Al Mustaqbal, April 30, 2017)
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