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Egypt

Bekia raises six-figure investment

Source: Startup Scene Cairo-based tech-powered waste management services startup Bekia has raised six-dollar-figure investment from Oman...

Recycling inorganic waste

Egypt

The Egyptian startups tackling wastage

Environmental pollution in Egypt is undeniably a complicated problem. Waste disposal is inadequate and pollution is a significant...

Recycling Climate change Environment

Algeria

How this Algerian entrepreneur is recycling plastic waste

Unemployment rate in Algeria increased to 10.5 percent, reaches almost 27 percent of the youth, and 20 percent of women, according to...

algeria waste trash

Turkey

How this Turkish startup seeks to be a one-stop-shop for waste management

‘Your trash is our pleasure’, was not only an ad that Nihat Kuruüzüm, a Turkish university dropout, fell on when he...

Recycling smart waste management smart reverse vending machines

Jordan

Decorating Jordan’s homes with its trash

It all started in one of the oldest bookstands in downtown Amman when unemployed Alaa Ziadeh decided to build things... using his...

Jordan Environment Green entrepreneurs

Egypt

Rubber a hot commodity for Egypt startup Retyres

Driving Cairo’s ring road or through one of its many poorer outskirts, one often encounters the distinct smell of burned rubber:...

tyres rubber Retyres

Lebanon

An eco-friendly solution to dispose of pharmaceutical waste in Lebanon

A 'pill-board' building. (Image via Ziad Abi-Chaker) This article is a crosspost with the MIT Technology Review Arab Edition written by N...

MIT Technology Review Arab Edition cedar environmental expired medication

U.A.E

Green Truck: a UAE private recycling service

The Green Truck warehouse. (Image via Green Truck) The UAE has one of the highest per capita waste generation rates in the world. Putting...

Green Truck MEMakers waste

Lebanon

5 ways to address Lebanon's trash crisis

Lebanon's trash piles up in the streets. (Image via Al Arabiya) Trash is piling up in the streets of Beirut and across Lebanon,...

waste lebanon GGRI

Egypt

Printing money: Spear Ink’s e-waste ambitions

E-waste is a mushrooming scourge of the technology revolution with up to 50 million tons of electronic rubbish generated annually -...

printer cartridge spear ink MEMakers

Maghreb

3D printing tackles plastic on the shores of Morocco

Jennifer Gadient and Fabian Wyss in front of their Ultimaker 3D printer. (Image via Aline Mayard) It’s 6pm on the beach at Taghazout, a f...

3d printing waste morocco

Lebanon

Recycling solutions for Lebanon’s green bottle surplus

Green Almaza bottles waiting to be reincarnated. (Images via GGRIL) The Israeli bombardment of Lebanon in 2006 left significant damage to...

Glass GGRIL Recycling

Egypt

5 startups to watch in Egypt's exciting agritech sector

Following last week's agritech overview, we profile five up-and-coming businesses from the startups seeking to revolutionize the way...

Schaduf Agrimatic Farms CUBII

Egyptian Brothers Innovate Recycling Technology in the Emirates

Many residents in the UAE simply don’t understand recycling, several recycling companies have said over the past few years. In Abu Dhabi, w...

Recycling Sustainability Environment

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