Egypt's Ministry of Environment and development partners launched an initiative to clean up Sharm El-Sheikh’s land and sea from plastic waste, in preparation for hosting the COP 27 conference due in the city on November 6-18.
The initiative was rolled out in Ras Mohammed Protectorate and Wataniya Marina, the Minister of Environment Fouad said in a press conference.
The idea behind this initiative is to make the coastal city free from single-use plastic by holding workshops and awareness campaigns for citizens and owners of shops and restaurants in the city.
“This comes in light the national strategy to reduce the use of single-use plastic bags, which was adopted in 2021,” by President Abdel Fattah El Sisi, she noted.
On his part, UNDP Resident Representative to Egypt Alessandro Fracassetti affirmed his support for the Ministry of Environment in its efforts to get rid of single-use plastic bags, thanking other partners like the Swiss embassy in Cairo and the European Union Mission to Egypt.
The press conference featured Deputy Head of the Delegation of the European Union to Egypt Tobias Krause and representatives of the concerned authorities and media people.
It worth mentioning that the EU funded initiative has encouraged youths to come from all over the city to remove plastic waste that had been piling up.
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