The neighborhood of Nasser, known as “Garbage City,” is home to Cairo’s “Zabalin” community of garbage collectors. Despite its stigmatized image as a slum, it has one of the most efficient recycling systems in the world.
This community of about 200,000 people manages to handle no less than 80 percent of Cairo’s waste and two-thirds of the entire metropolis’s garbage. When the community stopped working for several days to mourn the death of a loc…
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The neighborhood of Nasser, known as “Garbage City,” is home to Cairo’s “Zabalin” community of garbage collectors. Despite its stigmatized image as a slum, it has one of the most efficient recycling systems in the world.
This community of about 200,000 people manages to handle no less than 80 percent of Cairo’s waste and two-thirds of the entire metropolis’s garbage. When the community stopped working for several days to mourn the death of a loc…