The Definitive Guide to Living in the Capital , Cairo , Egypt

The girls at Reشcle not only create eye-catching, one-off pieces, they also have a vision of helping to educate and inspire Cairenes about the importance of recycling through their projects.

The average family in Egypt throws out around 5kg of rubbish a month – not including furniture items – and it’s no secret that there is a garbage problem on the streets of Cairo. Because of the over-crowding and the consumerist society, more people are buying more products and therefore, unsurprisingly, older things are more regularly discarded without a second thought. The presence of garbage is not only an eye-sore; the gases released from its decomposition also contributes to global warming – as if we need Egypt to get any hotter! With a little bit of creativity and effort from everyone, the amount of usable waste could decrease. Through modernising and renovating old and ignored items, not only would the amount of rubbish decrease, the demand for raw materials would go down too, and this in turn, would help to sustain the environment we all live in.Yomna and Maram have set up a service where they will personally collect any of your unwanted household items for free; not only would you be appealing to these talented girls’ artistic flairs, but you would also be helping to sustain the environment by removing that one piece of rubbish from the dump. Your old item may also have new life breathed into it and end up as a beloved masterpiece in someone else’s home.