🇪🇬Egypt

Egypt's grassroots initiative paying Nile fishermen fair wages to fish plastic instead of dwindling catch.

When reverse vending machines that pay phone credit for bottles appeared in Giza in August 2026, Cairo's garbage collectors took the fight to live television and got the right to empty the machines themselves.

A biodynamic farming initiative outside Cairo has spent nearly five decades proving that Egypt's desert can be turned into living soil without a drop of synthetic chemicals.

Founded by Hurghada divers in 1992, HEPCA runs the world's largest reef-mooring network and the waste systems that keep the Red Sea's coral coast alive.