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Why Cairo Recycles Better Than New York City in Waste-Picking Tale

2015-01-20 16:10:00| Waste Age

<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/">Bloomberg</a> How they scratch a living out of 15,000 tons of daily garbage -- equivalent to 35 loaded Boeing 747 jumbo jets -- is an extreme lesson in the invisible hand of the market at work. Two-thirds is recycled, more than in New York City, without any technology. The zabbaleen work for cash tips and sell plastic bottles, paper, glass and aluminum cans to factories. read more

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