Garbage City

Garbage City (Arabic: حي الزبالين‎) is a quarter at the far southern end of Manshiyat Naser in Cairo, Egypt. Its Cairo's largest informal garbage collectors (Zabbaleen) settlement; a slum where garbage recycling is central to its population's economy. It is one of the poorest cities in Egypt, everyone has trash on streets and everywhere else.

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