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Egyptian start-up turns plastic waste into tiles

TileGreen, which started three years ago, aims to make the country’s construction industry more environmentally friendly.

The young entrepreneurs at the start-up are combatting two problems. The country’s huge levels of plastic waste and high levels of emissions from cement used in the building sector.

“We invented a technology and an industrial process whereby we transform all forms of plastic wastes, namely those of low value, into building materials,” says Khaled Raafat, the co-founder of the company and chief technology officer.

TileGreen focuses on unwanted plastic waste that usually ends up in dumpsters, or on the street, as single-use plastic bags and other food containers that cannot be safely recycled.

Raafat says Egypt produces around 4.5 million tonnes of plastic wastes a year and each tile takes about 125 plastic bags out of the environment.

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