Rania Bahaa: Watch out what you dispose of

Rania Bahaa is talking trash, literally. In an effort to send zero waste to landfills, she presents innovative approaches her company has developed. One example: plastic straps as prayer mats.

Rania is an Environmental Specialist at Unilever Mashreq in Egypt. She has worked at Unilever since 2002. Rania led several innovative programs, across 4 Unilever factories, to meet the challenge that Unilever factories should create zero waste to landfill. This included the Waraqa Center, a “hand paper recycling” system that trained specially challenged employees to create stationary from used office paper; and a program that created economic opportunities for local community members who re-craft food and packaging by-products into second lives as new products that they sell. The Waraqa Centre and communication around it is helping to shift the local and Egyptian community perspective on sustainability.

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