Sports
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Omni sports
3/14/2024 11:41:00 AM
This year's Paris Olympics will use renewable energy, serve lots of vegetarian meals and heavily restrict plastic bottles, but can an event involving so much construction and international travel ever be environmentally sustainable?
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
1/15/2024 8:44:20 PM
In a makeshift tent of cloth and plastic, Ismail Nabhan huddled by a fire with his children and grandchildren as his family, displaced by the war in Gaza, struggled to stay warm.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
12/13/2023 10:58:37 AM
Israeli occupation soldiers rummaging through private homes in Gaza. Forces destroying plastic figurines in a toy store or trying to burn food and water supplies that are scarce in the Strip. Troops with their arms slung around each other, chanting racist slogans as they dance in a circle.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Entre nous
11/14/2023 10:22:28 PM
While the idea of buying fresh herbs sounds much better than buying the dried alternative or pre-cut herbs packaged in plastic wrap, unfortunately the lifespan of potted herbs can be disappointingly short
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War in Sudan
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War in Sudan
9/1/2023 12:47:04 PM
Hundreds of thousands of people fleeing Sudan's war have crossed into Chad to find themselves in overcrowded camps, sweltering in plastic huts and awaiting healthcare that never comes.
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Life & Style
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Health
7/11/2023 11:08:35 PM
Almotaz Abadi, Deputy Secretary General for Water, Environment and Blue Economy at the Union for the Mediterranean, discusses the need to change the narrative around the endangered ecosystem of the Mediterranean Sea.
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Business
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Economy
6/20/2023 6:20:43 PM
The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) is set to issue new EGP 20 plastic banknotes, according to Assistant Sub Governor Mohamed Amer.
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Business
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Economy
6/5/2023 1:44:33 PM
Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZONE) announced on Monday inking a contract to establish a factory affiliated with Abdos Labtech Indian company that specialized in manufacturing plastic products used in labs.
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Life & Style
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City Lights
5/25/2023 12:02:55 PM
More than 100 volunteers participated in the clean-up campaign at Nabq Bay beach in Sharm El-Sheikh and collected about 63 kilograms of marine plastic waste from the beach.
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World
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International
5/16/2023 9:19:44 PM
The world must halve single-use plastics and slash throwaway consumption to stem the tide of environmental pollution, according to a UN report on Tuesday that warns the next few years are critical.
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Egypt
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Society
5/13/2023 4:45:21 PM
Minister of Environment Yasmine Fouad has launched phase II of the EU-funded SwitchMed Project to accelerate the implementation of Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) and promote the circular economy and blue Economy in the country.
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World
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Region
5/9/2023 11:32:04 AM
For Nidal Jumaa, a Syrian from Aleppo, life in Turkey is tough. He works part-time at a furniture workshop and collects plastics and cardboard from trash cans that he sells for recycling, but can hardly afford the rent for his run-down house in a low-income neighborhood of Ankara.
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World
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Africa
1/31/2023 5:52:12 PM
Take a walk or drive through the streets of most Nigerian cities, and you will see plastic waste everywhere. The country’s rivers, lakes and ocean are also full of discarded plastic.
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Egypt
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Society
1/18/2023 2:27:28 PM
Entrepreneurial young Egyptians are helping combat their country's huge plastic waste problem by recycling junk-food wrappers, water bottles and similar garbage that usually ends up in landfills or the Nile.
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Life & Style
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Style
1/16/2023 1:03:48 PM
Under the Taliban, the mannequins in women’s dress shops across the Afghan capital of Kabul are a haunting sight, their heads cloaked in cloth sacks or wrapped in black plastic bags.
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World
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Region
1/10/2023 10:18:30 PM
The United Arab Emirates on Tuesday announced a ban on single-use plastic shopping bags to take effect next year, the latest initiative aimed at reducing pollution in the oil-rich nation.
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Arts & Culture
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Screens
12/25/2022 6:46:43 PM
Nabil El-Gamil Akhisaay Tagmeel (“Nabil El-Gamil Plastic Surgeon”), starring Egyptian comedian Mohamed Henedy, will be available on theatre starting Wednesday 28 December.
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World
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Region
11/27/2022 10:10:22 PM
The Abu Dhabi Environment Agency (EAD) has reported a 90 percent reduction in the consumption of single-use plastic bags, as the 3-million-resident emirate continues to phase out the use of plastic products.
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Business
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Markets & Companies
11/16/2022 10:23:23 PM
Hydrocarbon giant QatarEnergy and Chevron Phillips Chemical Company announced Wednesday that they have taken a final investment decision on an $8.5 billion polymers facility in Orange, Texas.
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COP27
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To Know
11/14/2022 10:10:15 PM
Petroleum and Mineral Resources Minister Tarek El-Molla said on Monday that the ministry is implementing two major projects to reduce the consumption of single-use plastic bags as part of the national strategic plan for petrochemical industries.
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