Bassita launches VeryNile, a local initiative to clean up Egypt’s Nile River

Egyptian clickfunding platform Bassita launched “VeryNile,” a new initiative to clean up the Nile by creating a sustainable ecosystem that recycles the plastic and waste collected from the river, Egyptian Streets reports. VeryNile aims to drive large-scale and environmentally sound removal of plastic pollution from Egypt’s aquatic ecosystems, partnering with local fishermen and leading volunteer cleaning crews to collect trash from the Nile River. On Saturday, 250 volunteers from VeryNile cleaned up 1.5 tonnes of garbage from the Nile.