CAIRO: For millennia, the Nile River has nourished the great civilizations of Egypt with copious fresh water, rich deposits of silt, plentiful fish, and means of navigation and trade. However, nowadays, the river carries another far less appealing bounty – plastic waste.
According to the Egyptian Organisation for Human Rights, about 4.5 million tons of waste flow into the Nile annually.
The Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research…
