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Garbage City: The Community That Turned 100 Million Tons of Trash Into a Crazy Economy

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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…
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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…

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kikar.co.il broke the news on Tuesday, July 7, 2026.
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