According to the most recent statistics compiled by the Egyptian Environment Agency and published in 2009, Cairo produces up to 14,000 tons of municipal waste per day. About 60 percent of this waste — ...

Suzie Greiss said: "I mean just look, you can hardly walk on the streets, there's rubbish everywhere. It's disgusting!" She lives in Heliopolis, a well-heeled suburb of Cairo. The capital's streets ...

Egypt's mostly Coptic sanitation workers - or Zabaleen - continue their longstanding quest to attain legitimacy under the country's new Islamist leadership The Zabaleen, Egypt's traditional garbage ...

A plan to move recycling out of the city has the famed garbage collectors fearing for their livelihood. Up in the Moqattam hills on the outskirts of Cairo, Miriam Maurice squats in a small shed ...

Overwhelmed by garbage, Egypt is turning once again to two marginalized parties for help: Coptic Christians and pigs. For years, pigs raised and handled by Egypt's Zabaleen, or "Garbage People," were ...

For the waste pickers that have traditionally made a living sifting through the mountain of discarded litter that blights the streets of Cairo, there has been scant cause for celebration these past 10 ...

Looking up for a moment from sorting through a mountain of blue and green plastic bottles, Mounir throws to one side a clear plastic container. Although the plastic has already been meticulously pored ...

Thanks to your votes, the family perseverance documentary “Zabaleen” won this weekend’s Project of the Week. Congratulations to director Justin Kramer. The filmmaker will receive a digital ...

Here’s your daily dose of an indie film in progress; at the end of the week, you’ll have the chance to vote for your favorite. In the meantime: Is this a movie you’d want to see? Tell us in the ...

A local act to look out for is El Zabaleen, a seven-piece band formed in April 2010. Their unique instrumentation gives them a novel and catchy sound. In Arabic, El Zabaleen means “the garbage ...