Prof. Hassan Al-Noamani, President of Sohag University, announced that within the framework of the university’s commitment to apply sustainability mechanisms and rules in all its activities and adopting them to implement the goals of Egypt’s Vision 2030 for sustainable development, a team from the university’s Sustainable Development Center participated in the campaign set up by the International Green Metrics Authority among international universities to present the mechanisms and methods which it uses to dispose its electronic waste in the occasion of World Electronic Waste Day.
Accordingly, the participating university team succeeded in obtaining the seventh rank among the participating international universities, while achieving second place at the level of Egyptian universities.
l-Nomani extended his thanks to the team working at the University’s Center of Sustainable Development who participated in preparing the file, wishing to achieve a distinguished position for the university in the international classification of sustainable universities, the results of which will be announced within days in the UAE on the sidelines of the COP28 climate conference.
Prof. Khalid Omran, Vice President of the University for Community Service and Environmental Development Affairs, added that the team participating in this file was led by prof. Hamdy Hassanein, Director of the Center of Sustainable Development, and the membership of both Prof. Nada Abdel Mohsen and Prof. Naglaa Youssef, members of the Waste Management Standard, and Ms., Heba Adel, Sohag University translator, prepared and translated the file according to the required instructions.
Prof. Hamdy Hassanein explained that an integrated file was presented supported by pictures and clear evidence of the quantities and types of electronic waste produced, amounting to about one ton annually, and also the sustainable mechanisms that the university followed collecting and classifying this type of waste, and reusing the useful parts of it, while the rest is treated in scientific, sustainable ways so that this waste does not accumulate, causing further damage to ecosystems.