City Scavengers (20 photos)

On the outskirts of the Egyptian city of Cairo has area Channel-Nasir (Manshiet Nasser) («City Scavengers") with a population of more than 40 000 people. The main way of earning the inhabitants of this area is the collection, sorting and recycling. This work by Egyptian standards brings quite a good income. Typical house in the neighborhood has several floors: on the ground there are large areas for sorting and packaging waste, the upper floors of the apartment. On the roofs of many houses are stored bales and packaging sorted and ready to be exported for recycling. Some homes are metal scaffolds incinerators, non-recyclable.

Despite the external ugliness and terrible smell standing in the area of ​​Cairo, residents recycle and dispose of about 85% of all waste multimillion city.