Garbage City of Cairo
By Deborah Loh
October 2014 TRAVEL
Cairo is home to a millennia of history and culture, but it also houses an ingenious community that has made a living out of the Egyptian capital’s mountains of trash.“Garbage City” in the Mokattam hills outside Cairo is not on the tourist map. A cramped slum of rubbish-strewn streets and low rise buildings, it is home to some 30,000 people who live here and work at sorting and recycling mountains of trash. Their unusual occupation is of interest to social...
Deborah Loh
is a freelance writer and editor.
