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Obstacles and Barriers in spreading CP & pollution prevention in Egypt

Obstacles and Barriers in spreading CP & pollution prevention in Egypt. Eng. Hanan El Hadary, project manager Egyptian Pollution Abatement Project EPAP Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency EEAA Ministry of State for Environmental Affairs. Cleaner Production Activities.

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Obstacles and Barriers in spreading CP & pollution prevention in Egypt

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  1. Obstacles and Barriers in spreading CP & pollution prevention in Egypt Eng. Hanan El Hadary, project manager Egyptian Pollution Abatement Project EPAP Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency EEAA Ministry of State for Environmental Affairs

  2. Cleaner Production Activities Cleaner Production Center • Ministry of Industry • Operate January 2004 • Serves 4 sectors • Incooperation with UNIDO Environmental Compliance Office • Federation of Egyptian Industry • Serves 4 Sectors • Incooperatioin with Dannida • Provide Soft loan package

  3. Cleaner Production Activities Egyptian Pollution Abatement Project • Investment Component • World Bank • Technical & Institutional component • Industrial • Institutional • Awareness

  4. Barriers to CP Adoption in Egypt Economic concerns: • Bad economic situation • Some companies have credit worthiness problems • Foreign exchange risk Technology and technical skills • Companies need to enhance its human resources skills interms of management, quality control and marketing skills

  5. Barriers to CP Adoption in Egypt Legal concerns: • CP is not referred to in Environmental laws Awareness • Lake of awareness in industry and other stakeholders

  6. Actions taken by EPAP for CP promotion • EPAP Financing package WB 35 million US $ KfW 12.5 million Euro • Replacing of Direct cooling to indirect in Food Oil Producing Company to prevent water contamination and recover uncontaminated oil • Switching to argon flushing from mercury flushing in fluorescent lamps plant • Replacing a polluting old Kiln with a modern one superior in energy and raw material efficiency in a sodium carbonate • Reducing hexane emissions by efficient hexane recovery in a soy seed extraction plant • Substituting solvent based spraying with water based and switching from manual to automatic spraying • Substitution a degraded sanitary kiln by a new energy efficient kiln

  7. Actions taken by EPAP for CP promotion • EPAP Technical and Institutional Component • Industrial Component • Promote CP in industry Propose CP options while identifying environmental problems and their abatement techniques • Produce Self Monitoring Manuals Produced 15 Self monitoring manual to assist industry to monitor their emissions and minimize their losses • Enhance Capacity building Provide training on Self Monitoring and CP opportunities

  8. Actions taken by EPAP for CP promotion • Institutional Component • Produce a national strategy for CP Formulated a Ministerial committee of 9 different ministries (Environment, Industry, Finance, Foreign trade, Electricity, Petroleum, Health, International Cooperation, Public Enterprises) to produce a national strategy for CP and assist in promoting it. • Review the executive regulation of law 4 for 1994 Propose a modification of the executive regulation to include CP aspects in order to be able to enforce the law

  9. Actions taken by EPAP for CP promotion • Awareness component • Infosheets • Success Stories • Website for CP and pollution prevention www.eeaa.gov.eg/ippg • Inspection and Self Monitoring Manuals Sector Specific Cross cutting

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