Somewhere bury under all those bags of trash is the Egyptian metropolis of Zabbaleen , where garbage rule supreme . It looks like an object lesson , warn us of some impending garbage Revelation of Saint John the Divine , but there ’s something entirely different at work .
We ’ve seen urban center around the earth ruined byradiation , pollution , political shifts , anddepleted imagination . At first glance , Zabbaleen look like another band of modern ruins , a urban center crushed beneath our wasteland — a real - life version of Futurama ’s “ Big Piece of Garbage . ”
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But Zabbaleen is actually a thriving community built on the use and repurposing of barren . occupier of the city , which sits just out of doors of Cairo , accumulate shabu from wealthier city and use or recycle some 80 to 90 percent of it . Some of the waste is fed to livestock or burned for fuel ; what can be touch on is fixed and sold . Much of their business consists of sorting and cleaning item and then selling them as flake . Zabbaleen resident do the overhaul for the government , and now many waste matter management company outsource their byplay to the city . But the citizens still populate at poverty levels and amidst mountain and heaps of refuse .
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