your luck in the trash, hit it, and it turns gold in Egypt. It is a summary of the story of a young man who is
poor Egyptian. He says about himself: I tried my luck in the trash, meaning garbage, and if
turn on his hands to gold. And his intervention in the wealthy club with income exceeding three
millions of dollars annually. In addition to placing him in the list of the most influential young people in a
world. All this is turning electronic waste into gold on the journey of the
started it in his thirties, Egyptian Mustafa Hamdan in the garage of his parents' house
in the city of Tanta, after he watched a documentary film about the recycling of
he said to himself why not, I will also hit the garbage to turn into gold to establish
Hamdan. The Egyptian Resai Klubeca Company, one of the first recycling
electronic in the Middle East. Here's an Egyptian success story that started with
with waste, and it ended with gold and millions. From the university to an informal society
zabaleen. In the year two thousand and eleven Mustafa Hamdan was the young Egyptian
poor man who studies at the Faculty of Engineering in the city of Tanta, at a distance of
ninety kilometers north of the capital, Cairo, sitting on the sofa of a house.
family watches a documentary film about the recycling of
printers . Before he jumped to the idea of ​​transferring garbage to the
gone. When I realize that there is a lot of potential for extracting from the
major computers like gold, silver and copper to
platinum. His first step was to participate with nineteen university students
in a competition for self-employment that was called Enjaz. The value of the
prize of ten thousand dollars. Then Hamdan thought about establishing his company
Especially though he was in his early twenties. However, he succeeded in
companies, established the Egyptian Company in the city of Tanta. To be the first company to bring back
of electronic waste recycling companies in the Middle East. At the time
the burgeoning computer waste sorting industry in Europe demanded
and the United States. But no one in the Middle East practiced it.
and Hamdan borrowed the name Rasay Klobeka from two words in the dialect. The
Egyptian waste . Robabica, which means the old things called by buyers
old things to buy discarded household items. Although Hamdan
His project began in the year two thousand and eleven, at the time of the outbreak of waves of unrest, with a
called the Arab Spring. But he found a way to promote his trade by publishing
award in the companies section of the famous e-commerce site Ali
Baba to surprise shortly after receiving his first Business deal When
a buyer in Hong Kong, ten tons of waste hard disk drives. At that time, Jamie did not
Hamdan did not even know where he would collect all this amount. What are the
moved to Cairo, he might find electronic waste, Hamdan could return the
recycling, benefiting from seventeen million people who left fifteen tons.
from the garbage daily in Cairo. However, Hamdan had to get acquainted with the beginning of its
on the work system of garbage management there. It was carried out through a system,
that depends on the scavengers collecting garbage who produce
garbage components were carefully sorted before selling their plastic components
paper and metal. Hamad realized that the so-called zabaleen do not collect.
electronic waste such as old computers or electronic
At that time, his fledgling company had to collect such products from companies.
, it meant that he needed at least fifteen thousand dollars. Levi Paoli's
company's orders are to be sent to Hong Kong. He had to be
the achievement award, which he repeatedly won, but Hamdan could not, because of
waiting, so he resorted to an alternative solution after Hamdan succeeded in convincing a professor with
lend him money in return for forty percent of the profits of his partnership
. And it is only months until the first shipments of the deal were completed successfully. And because the
Successes do not come individually. Hamdan also managed to win an advertising
the Free Business Competition Company . Expanded activities and its ability to secure
investment, in addition to obtaining one hundred and twenty thousand dollars from investors,
two famous Egyptians, Khaled Ismail and Hussein Al-Sheikh, who are now working, and
Two seats on the company's board of directors to expand the company already until it became
Hamdan did not stop running four warehouses across Egypt, where he collects the first waste
electronic from the environmentally friendly companies that he works with.
Hamdan's ambitions at this point, he even traveled to Hong Kong to study the activity
a recycling of waste in the Chinese region. What made him realize the necessity of
changing the nature that was limited to collecting old electronic materials and
shipping them to the buyer. However, Hamdan knew that if he
parts are separated and their components are then sold to other companies for melting and extraction
components separately will multiply the company's profits dozens of times. It ended
Hong Kong deal, and signed a contract with a German dismantling company. And by
year two thousand and thirteen, I approached concluding an investment deal with
other German waste . But his dreams seemed to be dashed by the turmoil of
opportunity came . Especially after his company lost most of its investments. But
, the Egyptian entrepreneur weathered the storm again by searching for
with alternative partners across the Atlantic. And then the political
with an offer from a state-based company with better terms for payment. Hamdan also contracted
deal with the online shopping site Gambia, to allow individuals
trading in their electronic waste in exchange for vouchers to buy
products. Once the seven-year-old project reached sales estimated by
three hundred and sixty tons annually of electronic waste. For this to be
company responsible for recycling seventy of Egypt's electronic waste. In the
the project's expansion to include electronic waste in the UAE. His
United Arab Emirates paintings , with a total profit of two million dollars annually. In a year
two thousand and eighteen, the Egyptian youth, Mustafa Hamdan, is on the list of
Forbes for the most influential thirty Arab youth under the age of thirty. Today,
tens, perhaps hundreds, of Hamdan's company. His company sells waste
electronically valued at nearly three million dollars a year.