Egypt hands over two safe sanitary landfills in South Sinai

Egypt's Minister of Local Development and Environment announced the final handover of two safe sanitary waste landfills in Ras Sidr and El-Tor, South Sinai.

• Manal Awad, Minister of Local Development and Environment, announced the handover of the projects, costing a total of 80.5 million Egyptian pounds across 20 feddans.
• The Ras Sidr landfill spans 10 feddans at 60 million pounds, including an 8-feddan safe burial cell and a leachate collection network.
• The El-Tor landfill covers 10 feddans at 20.5 million pounds, with a safe burial cell, a leachate evaporation lake, and power generators.
• Awad said the projects were built under a contract between the local development and environment, planning and economic development ministries and the Arab Organization for Industrialization.