The volunteers carried out a beach clean-up campaign in a beach in the city of Baltim, where plastic were collected in as many as 25 sacks - Courtesy of Youth Loves Egypt organization
CAIRO - 18 September 2019: Clean Shores Egypt, a branch of a global non-profit organization that aims at saving shores from pollition, has concluded its four activities in Kafr El-Sheikh governorate, which started from September 12th, with the participation of 35 volunteers.
The volunteers carried out a beach clean-up campaign in a beach in the city of Baltim, where plastic were collected in as many as 25 sacks.
Volunteers also have launched awareness campaigns that targeted more than 260 beach visitors on the damage caused by plastic and its impact on human health and other living organisms.
The initiative was launched by Youth Loves Egypt organization, in coordination with Cairo's media office of the United Nations.
Egypt has started to adopt new plans to improve garbage recycling and also limit plastic pollution.
In April, Hurghada Environmental Protection and Conservation Association (HEPCA) said that the Red Sea governor announced banning the use of single-use plastic starting June 1 due to its serious environmental damages.
HEPCA said that the use of disposable plastic causes the death of hundreds of thousands of living creatures in the world.
The decision comes to "protect the threatened and endangered species which are severely affected by ingestion, starvation, suffocation, drowning, entanglement and toxicity from plastic remains, which affects the human health accordingly," HEPCA explained.
The governorate is working to prevent factories from producing or distributing plastic bags in the city, according to HEPCA.
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