HEPCA is working with HE General Magdi Kubeissi, the Governor of the Red Sea, to support his decree that the Red Sea will be the first plastic bag free Governorate in Egypt with effect from 1st January 2009.
This decree represents a considerable step forward in tackling the many issues caused by excess rubbish and in particular plastic bags in the Red Sea environment. Plastic bags pose a massive hazard to birds, turtles, dolphins and other marine creatures that are killed in alarming numbers each year after swallowing or becoming entangled in plastic bags blown out to sea.
Turtles easily mistake plastic bags for yummy jellyfish. Once in the stomach, the indigestible plastic wraps itself around the intestines of the creature and it slowly starves to death. This year, HEPCA has seen an increase in the number of dead turtles washed up on the shores of the Red Sea. Plastic bags and other rubbish are undoubtedly to blame in many cases.
Typically plastic bags are used for only 20 minutes before being thrown out; but they will each take up to 1,000 years to rot away. During their long decay millions of bags litter and pollute our streets, the desert, and are blown out to sea where they become a toxic plastic soup that threatens the existence of marine and wild life.
The Red Sea campaign follows many high profile campaigns in Europe to limit this most damaging form of pollution. HEPCA is working alongside the Governorate to offer practical solutions and alternatives for plastic bags. As part of the campaign in support of this decree we will also be undertaking educational initiatives and lobbying activities.
Watch this space for more on this pioneering campaign coming soon.
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Red Sea: the first plastic bag free governorate in Egypt
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I am living since seven Years in Hurghada and the situation of garbage all around has never changed it has even become worse. Authorities and people do not care at all regarding cleanliness around houses, streets and public areas. Have a look at the desert street from the new Shopping Mall to Cairo/El Gouna. Daily trucks and private cars unload their garbage bags direct on the streets without any bad feeling. Inside Hurghada we don't have talk about.
It's dirty all over and the resonsible authorities must be blind or never go out of their houses. Have a look at Luxor how clean this city is at least in areas of tourism where they get the money from.
Yes, and it is really sad to see the children playing between rubbish... One day, I even saw children playing with old syringues that they found on the ground!!! Nobody care or what??!!! Good future that the authorities prepare for their kids...
Hurghada became a city for the rats, flies and cockroaches...
YES we really want to make our city clean . The road to El Gouna has to be pretty it is essential . to all authorities we want your attention
to be honest I've got to the point I'm fed up with reading these comments on various websites about how we have to clean up hurghada. Trouble is that is all that happens, lots of people saying how unhappy they are about the rubbish and doing sweet **** all about it! (including me!!!!)
The problem is the people responsible for leaving the rubbish on the street, will never read this site or any other sites about it. Maybe some of them can't even read.
All off Egypt is dirty including Luxor! Sharm is the only city I saw that charges a Penalty for throwing rubbish on the street. But they don't have poor people living in Sharm.
The poor and uneducated are mainly responsible for Egypt's pollution.
You need to look at your electricity bill and notice that you pay a fee for rubbish collection, and REQUIRE the government to REALLY pick-up the rubbish in your neighborhood. Someone is lining their pockets. Because the Rubbish dumps in Mubarak 6 are always overflowing with rubbish, that sometimes the Bawabs have to burn it, then it creates AIR POLLUTION.
Maybe this is why no one will buy any villas here, its a breeding round for rats and flies as someone else said.
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