“Recycling rice straw as a type of agricultural solid waste” Alternatives of using rice straw in Building construction as a tool to protect the environment in Egypt.

Abstract

The research aims to develop alternatives of using rice straw inconstruction as a tool to preserve the environment in Egypt. where the rice straw isone of the types of solid agricultural waste, which is produced in Egypt in largequantities, as a result of the lack of strategy by the State for how to collect ricestraw from farmers to recycling to benefit from them. Farmers burn it, which causesthe formation of a black cloud annually in Egypt and resulting environmentalproblems and health damage. Therefore, it was necessary to research how to get ridof rice straw by making use of it in recycling and using it in different ways inconstruction work in order to maximize the economic return from it as well as topreserve the environment in Egypt. The research paper deals with alternatives tobenefiting from rice straw, and these alternatives can be considered as amethodology or framework that the government may benefit from in addressing theenvironmental problem facing the country annually.