A Palestinian man works at a small factory for paper recycling, in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, on Sept. 21, 2022.(Photo: Xinhua)

 

A Palestinian man works at a small factory for papers recycling, in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, on Sept. 21, 2022.(Photo: Xinhua)

 

A Palestinian man works at a small factory for papers recycling, in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, on Sept. 21, 2022.(Photo: Xinhua)

 

Palestinian Akram Amour works at his small factory for papers recycling, in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, on Sept. 21, 2022.(Photo: Xinhua)

 
A small factory in southern Gaza is adding a second life to expired textbooks and used schoolwork papers, by making them into egg cartons.

Akram Amour, an operator of the factory in the southern Gazan city of Khan Younis, said the paper waste is provided by the Ministry of Education.

The densely populated Gaza Strip generates about 1,800 tons of solid waste every day, about 14 percent of which are paper and cardboard, according to local media reports in June.