According to WWF, 570,000 tonnes of plastics are dumped into the Mediterranean every year. Of these, 270,000 tonnes come from Egypt.
The Nile Plastic project aims to establish a model of economic cooperation on marine, plastic and aluminium waste between the fishermen of the Nile and the ragpickers of Cairo. To do this, the Verynile organization wants to train and equip a dozen boats so that fishermen can collect waste on the Nile and sell it to the ragpickers.
