AASTMT is actively implementing innovative and sustainable waste management practices to minimize environmental impact and align with global sustainability standards. The institution emphasizes the importance of reducing reliance on traditional landfill disposal by adopting a comprehensive approach that prioritizes reducing, reusing, recycling, and recovering waste products. These initiatives not only minimize waste generation but also promote efficient resource utilization, encouraging practices such as material recovery and resource optimization. Through these efforts, AASTMT transforms waste management into an opportunity to create value while fostering a culture of environmental responsibility. By integrating environmentally friendly strategies into its operations, AASTMT reaffirms its commitment to sustainability, contributing to a cleaner, healthier environment for future generations and demonstrating leadership in environmental stewardship. Consumption and Recycling Policy is indicated in the following section and illustrated in point 4 under title “The Waste Treatment Progressive System and Stages Incorporates”, in addition at point number 6 under title action, it illustrate the future action that will be taken from AASTMT side.
The huge pressure on environmental resources, increasing greenhouse gases, unprecedented rates of CO2 emissions, rising sea levels, pollution, overpopulation, resource waste, and land degradation affect the current and future generations. They face surmountable challenges due to climate change, resource scarcity, waste management, and insufficient recycling practices. Recycling is a cornerstone of addressing these issues, as it reduces resource waste, alleviates pollution, and contributes to managing land degradation. AASTMT has established policies to achieve sustainable development goals, helping uphold the University's Environmental Change and Social Duty Policy and keep the surrounding society and the community in good health and safe.
The policy places strong emphasis on recycling to lessen negative natural effects emerging from our era of waste raising, looking to foresee, reuse, recycle, repurpose, and decrease waste from our activity. Recycling is further integrated into the Policy, which likewise plans to guarantee that AASTMT oversees waste and recycling issues as per the counteraction of contamination and consistent with natural enactment. Recycling serves as a key strategy in fulfilling these commitments and creating a sustainable environment for all.
It is the responsibility of all employees, students, and contractors working to handle, deal with, and store all kinds of waste, including hazardous materials and other types of waste, with a strong emphasis on recycling. Recycling should be a priority at every level of waste management, ensuring that materials are sorted, processed, and reused whenever possible. In addition, assign the person who is responsible for these materials to oversee their recycling and disposal in the most suitable and environmentally friendly way. Recycling hazardous materials and other types of waste not only minimizes environmental harm but also aligns with sustainable waste management practices. Recycling initiatives should be integrated into all handling and disposal processes to support the university’s environmental goals.
The AASTMT policy considers end-of-life disposal costs and environmental impacts when making acquisition decisions involving the construction of new or renovated facilities.
AASTMT receives the 'waste order' of Prevention, reuse, reusing, and other recuperation and removal. AASTMT executes cycles, methods, and activities that guarantee consistency with ecological enactment and best practice, to lessen the general waste produced and forestall waste creation at every possible opportunity. Moreover, AASTMT is committed to measuring and weighing the amount of waste generated to track the waste and to find the best methods to reduce or recycle it.
The Waste Treatment Progressive System and Stages Incorporates:
Prevention
RE-USE
Recycle
Disposal
AASTMT is seeking to reduce food waste as much as we can through using food preservation methods and vermicomposting practices. The university is committed to delivering healthy food for all parties in the university including food on Campus, Residences, and employees whether vegetarian or others. AASTMT makes sure that the food is available at each level to guarantee healthy food for ASTMT’s stakeholders. However, food waste is still a problem for AASTMT. Therefore, AASTMT is applying the following procedures to use the waste of food in an appropriate way:
The AASTMT seeks to implement ethical and sustainable practices on all of its campuses. Therefore, the AASTMT has taken crucial measures to implement these practices, such as ecological practices and corporate social responsibility. Through the exchange of information within the Academy's supply chain, these food ethics and practices enable AASTMT to ensure the transparency of information about all suppliers.
To accomplish supply chain transparency, one of the primary goals of AASTMT is to identify the most reliable and reputable partners who share the same ethical practices, objectives, and data. To accomplish ethical and sustainable practices, the first step is to identify the most suitable suppliers.
The interaction with suppliers is the second step to keep secure relationships between partners and to reduce the risk. AASTMT is seeking to build a platform and application to increase communication and share important information. That would give the suppliers and partners access to the internal systems they need based on their roles within the ecosystem, sustainability practices, and the food ethics of AASTMT.
Through utilizing new technologies such as block chain technology, AASTMT plays a crucial role in facilitating the monitoring and tracing of the origin of food. It allows the AASTMT to trace the origin of food and ensure its safe delivery to campuses.
AASTMT is monitoring the overall processes between its partners to guarantee healthy and sustainable food for students, staff, and Residents. Based on this monitoring, errors must be fixed, and corrective action must be taken.
AASTMT guarantees that we are conforming to guidelines, enactment, and best practices to limit the danger of prompt and future contamination or mischief to wellbeing when completing operational exercises.
Waste ought to be forestalled or limited at every possible opportunity. AASTMT empowers staff, Students, and employers to limit plastic and cartoon waste, in addition to increasing the awareness about the method to minimize disposable items.
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Policy title: | Consumption and Recycling Policy |
Date created: | May 2019 |
Approving body: | SDG workforce committee |
Version: | 4 |
Last review date | 2024 |
Next review date: | 2025 |
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Lead contact: |
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Approval Signature | Dean of Scientific Research and Innovation |
You can read our Consumption and Recycling Policy on AASTMT on wesite
More activities are applied and practiced in the AASTMT.
Following the recent TouMaLi International Conference, a dedicated project team from the University of Rostock and BlackForest Solutions visited 20 hotels in Greater Alexandria that are part of the pilot project. During this visit, they collected and reviewed data regarding the general conditions and waste management practices in these establishments. The Arab Academy for Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport (AASTMT), as a key partner in the TouMaLi project, plays a crucial role in this initiative by facilitating collaboration among various stakeholders to develop tailored waste management concepts for the hotels. The overarching goal is to enhance the waste management infrastructure, establish effective waste sorting at the source, and ultimately increase recycling rates while minimizing landfill contributions. Through these efforts, AASTMT is significantly contributing to the improvement of sustainable waste practices in the region.
Enhancing Waste Management Practices
The Arab Academy for Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport (AASTMT) has played a vital role in advancing Egypt's waste management system from 2019 to 2023. AASTMT has collaborated with relevant ministries to build and implement the infrastructure of Egypt's new waste management system. This partnership included training and qualifying personnel across various Egyptian governorates in the operation, management, and monitoring of waste management processes—spanning collection, transportation, treatment, and safe disposal. AASTMT has also significantly contributed to introducing global waste management systems and advanced technologies in Egypt, working closely with decision-makers to shape national strategies for optimal waste management across diverse waste types. This initiative not only aligns with AASTMT’s commitment to environmental sustainability but also supports Egypt’s goals for sustainable development by promoting local recycling industries and reducing reliance on imports. AASTMT's expertise has extended to the design and launch of 23 secure landfill sites, including a major new facility in Bir Al-Abed, Sinai, set to serve 100,000 residents, alongside three additional sites in Arish, Al-Tur, and Sharm El-Sheikh.
In a significant initiative towards sustainable waste management, the Arab Academy for Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport (AASTMT) has partnered with Egypt's Ministry of Environment to implement a new waste management system. Under the guidance of Dr. Yasmine Fouad, the Minister of Environment, AASTMT is supervising the operation of a new landfill cell in the city of Badr, which aims to enhance the safe disposal of waste and reduce air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions contributing to climate change. Additionally, AASTMT played a crucial role in conducting a two-day training program for waste management personnel in the Sharqia governorate, equipping them with the necessary skills and knowledge to effectively manage waste systems. This collaborative effort not only addresses local waste management challenges but also aligns with the United Nations SDG 12, promoting responsible consumption and production patterns by enhancing the capacity and efficiency of waste management practice
AASTMT’s Leadership in Sustainable Waste Management: Removal of Waste and Transferring it to Sanitary Landfill
The Arab Academy for Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport (AASTMT) recently collaborated with Egypt’s Ministry of Local Development to support the safe disposal and management of historical waste accumulations in Beheira Governorate. As part of the initiative to promote sustainable waste management aligned with UN SDG 12 , AASTMT experts, including Dr. Abdel Moneim Sand and Dr. Tarek Eid, provided essential expertise in waste handling and environmental safety. The project involves the removal of over 200,000 tons of waste from Idku to the newly constructed sanitary landfill in Badr City, a crucial step in improving public health, protecting local ecosystems, and enhancing sustainable tourism. This effort also includes training local staff on landfill management and sustainable practices, supported by the ministry's Waste Management Unit and other stakeholders.
AASTMT is adopting the different practices in the delivery of its waste management services. The AASTMT will apply different policies and activities’, to reduce, reuse, recycle and recover waste products in preference to the disposal of waste to landfill.
Policy Waste Disposal - Landfill Policy on AASTMT webpage
Within the role of the Ministry of Environment in implementing the new waste management system: The Minister of Environment directs the rapid implementation of the infrastructure of the waste management system and the qualification of the cadres working in the system.
The Ministry of Environment, in cooperation with the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, implemented a two-day training program for workers in the waste management system in the Eastern Province, to qualify cadres and workers in the waste system as part of capacity building efforts to raise the level of performance, in a way that facilitates the implementation of the system in the best way and achieves its effectiveness and use, through definition. The Waste Management Law and the role of the Waste Management Regulatory Authority in this field, and an introduction to the infrastructure that is being implemented and the best ways to operate and sustain it. It also includes practical training for workers in the sanitary landfill in Belbeis in Sharqia.
Within the role of the Ministry of Environment in implementing the new waste management system on Social media
The AAST has a funded project entitled “COMPOSTING THE ORGANIC WASTES INTO AN ORGANIC FERTILIZERS USING THE EARTHWORM EISENIA FETIDA (RED WIGGLER)”. This project aims to the building a sustainable composting unit for the disposal of the organic wastes using the earthworm which will feed on them. After digesting the worms for these organic wastes, it produced a cast called vermicompost which is very rich in organic nutrients as well as growth hormones which will be very useful for plant growth. Moreover, the production rate of these worms is very high and also its protein content reach 70%. So, the dried worm meal can be used as a supplementary feed for fish and poultry. This in turn will decrease the fish and poultry production coast and hence decrease the overall prices of such important human food. So, the current project is trying to solve the problem of organic waste in cities and also converting them to a valuable and important product. Moreover, such techniques will decrease the overall emission of greenhouse gases.
