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Cairo’s Trash Capital Gets Colorful with Massive Anamorphic Mural

One of Cairo’s seven settlements of the Zabbaleen, garbage collectors who make their living picking through and efficiently recycling the city’s trash, has gotten a little brighter with the ...

Refuge of Refuse: Garbage City, the Trashiest Place on Earth

Most of us view trash as something that should remain unseen, whisked away in the most sanitary manner possible so that we don't have to think about it too much. But outside Cairo is an informal ...

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