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Garbage Separation
This project was tested in two
urban neighborhoods in Cairo. Findings indicated that the scheme
would afford replication and would lead to a more efficient
recovery of solid waste from household garbage, as well as
produce a better composts free from contaminants and heavy
metals. Women would no longer have to sort soiled garbage and
the health hazards to children would be greatly reduces.
A.P.E's plans for the future are
to expand a garbage separation at the source pilot project in
the entire city of Cairo. This project would require residents
of Cairo to toss out their household garbage into two
components: food and non-food. This initial separation would
make the manual sorting of household waste less hazardous to the
health of women and children and reduce the sorting time by
half. It would also produce cleaner organic manure and even
higher grade compost. The non-food items would be recovered and
sold to recycling entrepreneurs in the neighborhood and fetch a
sustainable income. The environment would be further served from
this recovery and re-manufacture of solid household waste which
would become more efficient if residents sorted it into these
two components.
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