{"id":16696,"date":"2020-07-07T07:56:39","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T04:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/?p=16696"},"modified":"2020-07-06T20:46:03","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T17:46:03","slug":"egypt-about-40-tons-of-waste-collected-from-the-red-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/environmental-news-en\/egypt-about-40-tons-of-waste-collected-from-the-red-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: About 40 tons of waste collected from the Red Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\"><p>The Red Sea was cleaned from 19 June 2020 to 29 June 2020 as part of a 10-day initiative called \u201cEthadar lel-Akhdar\u201d (be civic-minded towards green). The project, launched by Egyptian Environment Minister Yasmine Fouad, is the first activity of the \u201cLive Green\u201d campaign for the protection of biodiversity, launched by the Egyptian Ministry of Environment in early 2020.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the clean-up operation, about 40 tons of waste were brought up from the bottom of the Red Sea. This waste was composed of materials such as plastic, glass, metal, wood, etc. \u201cAll the waste was transferred to a sanitary landfill for safe disposal,\u201d says Yasmine Fouad, Egypt\u2019s Minister of the Environment. \u201cThe area that was cleaned from June 19-29, 2020 covered the Hurghada, Safaga and Marsa Allam regions. \u201cThe initiative was aimed at preserving Egypt\u2019s natural resources,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>With a surface area of 450,000 km\u00b2, the Red Sea is of strategic and commercial importance for sailors leaving the Mediterranean Sea for the Indian Ocean and vice versa. Its \u201cunavoidable\u201d character explains the continuous pollution of the water of this marine space by waste of all kinds, threatening coral reefs and other forms of marine life.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afrik21.africa\/en\/egypt-about-40-tons-of-waste-collected-from-the-red-sea\/\">Afrik 21<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Red Sea was cleaned from 19 June 2020 to 29 June 2020 as part of a 10-day initiative called \u201cEthadar lel-Akhdar\u201d (be civic-minded towards&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16699,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":null,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":null,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[4825,4826,131],"class_list":["post-16696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environmental-news-en","tag-egypt","tag-red-sea","tag-waste","wpcat-31-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/water-3353811_1280.jpg?fit=100%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16700,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16696\/revisions\/16700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}