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TIL: Cairo’s “Garbage People” Farm Their City’s Trash | Today I Learned


zabba lien means the garbage people but
the funny thing is is that they don’t
believe there’s such thing as garbage so
they believe that they are the recyclers
they moved in from the countryside when
they were displaced by agro industry and
they realized that if they couldn’t do
their farming on their land they could
farm the city the women and little girls
separate out the organics and feed it to
the animals the plastic and the glass
and the metal go to the men to be
shredded and been sold primarily the
Chinese 85% of Cairo’s garbage is
recycled by them the only downside is
that they don’t have the investment
capital and the political permission to
really make their place efficiently
clean
like a good prospector entrepreneur they
see value and things that other people
can’t see the value and they’re very
proud of it all bees buzzed but
bumblebees are one of the very few types
of bees that actually take that buzzing
sound and use it like a secret weapon to
get pollen
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