I ventured solo into Garbage City and found myself getting threatened with sharp pieces of metal by the locals (lol)! I also ...

The remarkable story of Cairo's Zabbaleen, who turn the city's rubbish into valuable resources in a stunning example of ...

In Cairo, there's a suburb called Mokottam that is better known as "Garbage City." Why? Because its inhabitants, mostly Coptic Christian Egyptians known as the "Zabbaleen" (Garbage People ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Faouzi eL Seed has painted a mural that spans 50 buildings in the "Garbage City" part of Cairo. Story and editing by David Fang; photos and footage courtesy of eL ...

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Cairo residents are being offered money in exchange for their recyclable garbage, as part of efforts to clean the city's streets and reduce the enormous landfill waste produced in the teeming ...