Feature: Young Egyptians turn waste recycling hobby into stable source of income


CAIRO, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- Two Egyptian young men have managed to turn their hobby of recycling old materials such as scrap metal and using them to make home decorations and furniture into a stable source of income.

It was initially the pressure of the lack of jobs and low salaries that prompted Ibrahim Salah and Ahmed Hussein, two friends from Giza Province near the capital Cairo, to put this recycling idea into practice.

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