Why Cairo Recycles Better Than NYC in Waste-Picking Tale: Cities
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Milad Tadros is a magician. He makes trash disappear -- at zero cost to taxpayers.
The 32-year-old is part of Cairo’s army of about 70,000 zabbaleen, Arabic for garbage people, serving the city of 12 million. For decades, they’ve weathered dictatorship and revolution to create one of the world’s greenest waste-management systems in a capital known for its dirt.