The Zabaleen: Cairo's Garbage Collectors (Part 1)
An unseen army of 50,000 Coptic Christians collects Cairo's trash at 2AM and take it home to Garbage City.
• Why are only Christians recycling Cairo’s garbage – in a country that is 90% Muslim?
• Why do you want to avoid hospital waste at all costs – especially in Egypt?
• What can you learn about a city from its garbage?
The Zabaleen have created one of the most efficient recycling systems in the world. They re-use 85% of Cairo's waste from over 12 million people.
Until recently Garbage City – their home – had no water, sewage, or electricity.
The men collect, the women sort, and the children start helping as soon as they can walk.
Everything they need to live is found in the garbage - from toys to food for their livestock.
The garbage gets separated into hundreds of categories – from forks to dolls.
They’ve weathered many crises – during the swine flu epidemic the government ordered every pig in Egypt to be slaughtered. The Garbage People almost starved. Waste piled up on Cairo’s streets.
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The Zabaleen: Cairo's Garbage Collectors (Part 2)
Garbage City - Cairo's dark and dirty underbelly. It's home to 50,000 Coptic Christians that make their living recycling the city's garbage. Why only Christians? Because they feed the organic waste to their pigs – and Muslims won’t touch pork.
You can learn a lot about a city from its trash. In Garbage City, they don’t just sort by garbage type, but also by brand. Among plastic bottle collectors, there’s an “American” pile.
• What one piece of garbage is sought by almost every collector?
• Cairo recycles over 85% of its garbage – more than any other city in the world. how did the Garbage People create such an efficient recycling system?
• Why was the swine flu so devastating to Cairo’s Garbage People – even though no pig ever tested positive in Egypt?
The Garbage People don’t just collect garbage – they remanufacture plastic forks into chairs and cans into shiny metal sheets.
But there is always one catastrophe away from starvation. First it was swine flu. Then the Egyptian government sold the garbage collection contract to foreign corporations. Lately China has stopped accepting recycled plastic.
When the Garbage People don’t work, Cairo’s streets overflow with waste.
But there is hope – and community. The Garbage People send their children to school, and dream of getting them out of garbage city. They've created a community with shops and cafes - they even have a mayor (unofficial). And they built themselves the world’s largest Coptic Christian Church – drilled out of a cave in the mountainside. More than anything, they are a strong community with deep family ties.
Many of Garbage City's residents would live there even if they didn't make their living off of trash.
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Threatened in Egypt's Christian Hood! ????????
I visited Mansheya Nasir, also known as garbage city, one of the only Christian neighbourhoods in all of Egypt. Most people were very welcoming, some not so much...
I tried to be an investigative journalist and discover what garbage city (Mansheya Nasir) is all about. Garbage city is a neighbourhood in Cairo, Egypt responsible for the waste management of the whole city! I didn't get to learn to much about the process, but don't stress! Next video I post I get shown around by a local who tells me all about garbage city. The reason why I didn't get a chance to learn much about this interesting place is because very few people here speak English. ALSO some dude got very mad at me and threatened me with a sharp piece of metal. So at that point i was pretty bummed and really didn't care much about the garbage any more. There was a cool church in a cave that I went to see but besides that, all I mostly saw was garbage... lots and lots of garbage. What a crazy place!
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Mobbed by Children in GARBAGE CITY | Egypt | الاطفال في منطقة الزبالين
Mansheya Nasir, also known as Garbage City, is a slum settlement of around 60,000 on the outskirts of Cairo, home to mostly Coptic Christians. Many of the residents here work as unofficial garbage collectors throughout the city, collecting garbage and transporting it via donkey carts or trucks for a small fee and then sorting it for recyclable materials once home. Join me and Kata as we walk from the center of downtown Cairo to Garbage City, meeting a large group of children along the way.
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Many children in this wealthy city work all day in large garbage dumps, scavenging for recyclables to support their families.
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300,000 People Living Amongst Piles of Garbage! ???????? Egypt's Garbage City
I followed a local deep into Mansheya Nasir AKA garbage city in Cairo, Egypt to learn what it's like to live and work in a giant city filled with garbage!
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2 days prier I ventured solo into Garbage City and found myself getting threatened with sharp pieces of metal by the locals (lol)! I also went in with the hopes of learning a thing or two about Egypts biggest waste management neighbourhood. Unfortunately I learned nothing :( Luckily I found an english speaking local to show me around!
Here's how one community takes care of all the garbage in Cairo and the surrounding lands of Egypt...
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GARBAGE CITY - Cairo ???????? | DO NOT GO HERE!
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garbage city, Zabbaleen, Egypt
a coptic christian community of 60,000 gather one third of the city's 10,000 tons of daily garbage. They recycle as much as 80% of it into raw materials and manufactured goods-plastics, rugs, pots, paper, glass-which are then traded with thousand of businesses nationwide.
Alone in GARBAGE City, Cairo | Is It Safe Here?! | انا توهت في منطقة الزبالين، القاهره
Over 21 million people and no organized garbage removal system. Who collects Cairo's trash?
Come with me as I wander Garbage City alone and see for yourself how dangerous or not these residents of Cairo's slum are.
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The Secret Joy of Cairo's Garbage People (Part 2)
Garbage City - Cairo's dark and dirty underbelly. It's home to 50,000 Coptic Christians that make their living recycling the city's garbage. Why only Christians? Because they feed the organic waste to their pigs – and Muslims won’t touch pork.
You can learn a lot about a city from its trash. In Garbage City, they don’t just sort by garbage type, but also by brand. Among plastic bottle collectors, there’s an “American” pile.
• What one piece of garbage is sought by almost every collector?
• Cairo recycles over 85% of its garbage – more than any other city in the world. how did the Garbage People create such an efficient recycling system?
• Why was the swine flu so devastating to Cairo’s Garbage People – even though no pig ever tested positive in Egypt?
The Garbage People don’t just collect garbage – they remanufacture plastic forks into chairs and cans into shiny metal sheets.
But there is always one catastrophe away from starvation. First it was swine flu. Then the Egyptian government sold the garbage collection contract to foreign corporations. Lately China has stopped accepting recycled plastic.
When the Garbage People don’t work, Cairo’s streets overflow with waste.
But there is hope – and community. The Garbage People send their children to school, and dream of getting them out of garbage city. They've created a community with shops and cafes - they even have a mayor (unofficial). And they built themselves the world’s largest Coptic Christian Church – drilled out of a cave in the mountainside. More than anything, they are a strong community with deep family ties.
Many of Garbage City's residents would live there even if they didn't make their living off of trash.
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Hopelessly Lost in Garbage City
I'm not going to lie. This video isn't as thrilling as Hopelessly Lost in a Nubian Village. We weren't even lost in Garbage City. It just felt like we were.
Garbage City is a neighborhood in Cairo built, literally and figuratively, on garbage. The people who live there are called the Zabbaleen which means Garbage People in Egyptian Arabic. The Zabbaleen have served informally as Cairo's trash collectors for decades, living amongst the trash they recycle to make a living.
Many of the Zabbaleen are Coptic Christians. In this video, you'll see an enormous church they've built inside a cave on the edge of Garbage City. With seating for 15,000 to 20,000, it's the largest church in the Middle East.
You will also see a goat.
The Friendly People of Garbage City
One of the friendlier places we visited while in Cairo. Garbage city's economy revolves around garbage and recycling
Город Мусорщиков в Каире: ЕГИПЕТ ❘ Zabbaleen. City of Trash in Cairo: EGYPT. ЯНВАРЬ 2021
Посетить Египет и не побывать в Каире? Тогда вы не сможете понять, что же такое настоящий Египет. А чтобы проникнуться страной ещё больше, обязательно съездите в Город мусорщиков, он же Маншият-Насир или ЗАББАЛИН. Место, где живут копты-христиане, основным занятием которых является сбор мусора со всего Каира и его переработка.
Район, который ломает твою жизненную систему.
И заставляет задуматься.
Город Мусорщиков реально уникальное место:
Здесь можно увидеть церковь в пещере;
Многоэтажные дома, где на крышах живёт домашняя птица и скот, а в подвалах (или на первых этажах) люди сортируют мусор;
Женщин без закрытой одежды;
Тату салон, где копты делают себе татуировки (опозновательный знак: свой/чужой);
И просто людей, которые делают Каир чище.
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埃及A開羅市容/貧民區購物/垃圾場及過夜火車往亞斯旺(粵語現場解述)2002 Zabbaleen: Trash Town in Cairo Egypt-people living on rubbish
一提起埃及，人們大概會先想到金字塔，但這次，展示的是這座文明古國的另一面。埃及的首都開羅有一個別稱叫「垃圾城」，這個不太好聽的名字緣於開羅的郊外，一個堆滿了垃圾廢品的城市---曼施納賽爾（Manshiet Nasser）。這座位於埃及開羅郊外的「垃圾城」裡，完全都堆滿了垃圾廢品，城裡住著一群被稱為「紮巴里」的工人(Zabbaleen，阿拉伯語，意為「拾荒者」)，其中，不乏婦女和兒童的身影，他們每天都以撿拾垃圾為生。作為世界上最大的都市之一，埃及的開羅每天都要產生出成千上萬噸垃圾，但其垃圾回收，卻仍然大多依賴傳統的垃圾清運工，這些工人負責處理開羅市區運來的垃圾，包括對垃圾進行收集、分類、重新利用、轉售或是用於其他用途。而這些人真的就生活在這裡，依靠垃圾為生，尤其是這裡的孩子，他們一出生就與垃圾為伍。
開羅（阿拉伯語：القـــاهــرة，羅馬化：al-Qāhirah，IPA：[ælˈqɑːhɪɾɑ] （關於這個音頻文件 聆聽））是埃及首都。開羅在古埃及時期稱優努（古埃及語：ỉwnw，拉丁化：lunu，意為「通道」）或安努（Anu），聖經中稱作昂（On）、赫利奧波利斯（希臘語：Hλιούπολις，意為「太陽神之城」）、米斯爾（阿拉伯語：مصر，另作Miṣr，意為「軍營」，後來成為整個埃及的自稱），後改稱福斯塔特（阿拉伯語：الفسطاط, ，意為「帳棚」），868年突倫王朝埃米爾艾哈邁德·伊本·突倫於福斯塔特北部另建新都稱作加塔伊（阿拉伯語：القطائـع），到969年法蒂瑪王朝哈里發穆伊茲派部將喬海爾征服阿拔斯王朝統治下的埃及，973年遷都於此，把新首都稱作開羅（al-Qāhira，意為「勝利之都」）為開羅名稱之始。開羅橫跨尼羅河，氣魄雄偉，風貌壯觀，是整個中東地區的政治、經濟和商業中心。它由開羅省、吉薩省和蓋勒尤卜省組成，通稱大開羅。大開羅是埃及和阿拉伯世界以及非洲最大的城市，人口一千多萬，也是世界上最古老的城市之一，是世界第十六大都會區。現在的開羅地區，阿拉伯穆斯林占多數，科普特基督徒也占有較大比例。除了特有的農作物種植如洋蔥、芝麻之外，這裡的棉布等紡織品貿易業也很繁榮。開羅市的道路網絡極大極廣泛，道路除貫穿整個開羅外，亦連接附近的衛星城市和鄉村。市內路面公共運輸有出租車和由私人公司營運的公共汽車。交通擠塞是開羅市的重大交通難題，市內繁忙街道的車輛移動速率極低，但開羅的司機普遍很忍讓。開羅市內設有阿拉伯世界第一個啟用的地鐵，也是非洲兩個營運中的重型地鐵系統之一，另一個是同樣位於北非的阿爾及爾地鐵，開羅地鐵於1987年開始運營。截止至2014年，開羅地鐵系統有61座地鐵站，3座換乘站，總長77.9公里。現時運營中的路線有1號線，2號線及3號線。在繁忙時間，地鐵會變得非常擁擠。
Garbage City - Cairo, Egypt
Garbage City - Cairo, Egypt. Taken in Nov 2010.
Many Coptic Christians populate this area in Cario - they collect the city's trash and sort out the recyclables to sell and make a living. The bags are in the streets, in the buildings, on the roofs, and balconies. A very different way of life most of us Americans could never imagine.
I wish these people, all the people of Cairo and Egypt, only the best in the days, weeks, and years to come. Go Egypt! Woo!!
How This Town Produces No Trash
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In 2003, the local government in Kamikatsu, Japan decided to require that all residents comply with a new, rigorous recycling program - perhaps the most rigorous in the world.
Since then, the town composts, recycles, or reuses 80% of its garbage. It may not technically be 100% zero waste, as the remaining 20% goes into the landfill, but it's a remarkable achievement for an entire community, in such a short amount of time. The impacts have been positive - cutting costs for the community drastically, as well as improving the conditions of the lush and beautiful environment that surrounds the town in Southeast Japan.
Residents must wash and sort virtually anything that is non-compostable in their household before bringing it to the recycling sorting center. Shampoo bottles, caps, cans, razors, styrofoam meat trays, water bottles...the list goes on and on (literally) into 34 categories. At the sorting center, labels on each bin indicate the recycling process for that specific item - how it will be recycled, what it will become, and how much that process can cost (or even earn). It's an education process for the consumer.
All kitchen scraps must be composted at home, as the town has no garbage trucks or collectors.
And as for other items, reuse is heavily encouraged. According to Akira Sakano, Deputy Chief Officer at Zero Waste Academy in Kamikatsu, the town has a kuru-kuru shop where residents can bring in used items and take things home for free. There is also a kuru-kuru factory, where local women make bags and clothes out of discarded items.
At first, it was difficult to be come accustomed to the new rules. It can be a pain, and at first we were opposed to the idea, says resident, Hatsue Katayama. If you get used to it, it becomes normal.
Now, it's even being noticed within Kamikatsu's businesses. The first zero-waste brewery has opened in Kamikatsu, called Rise and Win Brewery. The brewery itself is constructed of reused materials and environmentally friendly finishes. By 2020, Kamikatsu hopes to be 100% zero waste, with no use of landfills, and to forge connections with other like-minded communities in the world, spreading the practice of zero-waste.
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Cairo & Zabaleen footage and scenery
Footage from my trip to Egypt in spring 2007. Includes various areas of cairo and its bazaars, as well as the Zabaleen garbage collecting district. Dirtiest neighborhood I have ever ventured into.
Not Welcome at Garbage City, Cairo
I decided to go to 'Garbage City' on Christmas Day but things didn't turn out as planned...
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Zabaleen
Cairo's garbage people