Tag: zabaleen

Go to mass in a Cairo, Egypt church built out of a cave

Historically marginalized and evicted from Giza in 1970, a community of Coptic Christians took up residence at the foot of the Mokattam hills in south east Cairo.

Egypt Recycling Gets $340,000 Boost from Tetra Pak

Tetra Pak sold roughly 1.625 billion packages in Egypt in 2011, of which only 20 percent were recycled. That's...

Cairo’s Waste-Eating Pigs Make a Quiet Comeback

In 2009 during the height of the swine flu epidemic, Egyptian law officials ordered the culling of thousands of...

Why Not Use Biofuel for Heating Syrian Refugees? Green Prophet Reports from Jordan Camp

Egyptian model for the Zabaleen could help heat Syrian refugees. Green Prophet's Joseph reports from Jordan.  Zaatari Refugee Camp in...

Where do Cairo’s Zabaleen Garbage Sorters Stand Under President Morsi?

Local press and environmentalists in Egypt claim that the unofficial garbage workers of Cairo - the Zabaleen - are...

Heaping Urban Trash May be More Serious than Climate Change

Heaping urban trash may be an even more daunting global phenomenon than climate change, the World Bank warned in...