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Uploaded by on May 20, 2009

Cairo's "Garbage People"

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  • Welcome to the real world folks. While it looks abysmal, these folks recycle 80% of the waste products collected from Cairo. This compares to a 20% recycling rate in Western cities. When you are impoverished, you do what you have to do to survive.

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  • @pinz2022 That's unfortunate.

  • @buddhaman4518

    And, as if the Zabbaleen don't have it tough enough already, they are now being systematically persecuted after the fall of Mubarak because--guess what?--the Zabbaleen of Garbage City are Coptic Christians. That's how they inherited the job of trash sorting, because nobody else wanted it.

  • egypt is a very behind poor ccountry

  • So freaking... aww shit

  • thats...insane xO

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