In a desert metropolis of 22 million, many things are scarce, and few are as abundant as trash. For decades, Cairo lacked an organized approach to waste management – an administrational gap filled by the people of Manshiyat Nasser, a neighborhood known as Garbage City.

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For about 70 years, the mainly Coptic Christian population has put its faith in the garbage the city provides, recollecting and recycling the things nobody wants into a living.

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