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Zabaleen

Gates Foundation Gives $1 Million Award to Cairo's Garbage Pickers

Melissa Biggs Bradley | Posted 10.29.2009 | Impact

Read More: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Zabaleen, Impact News
Melissa Biggs Bradley

Garbage Dreams follows teenagers whose methods of trash-gathering yield much better recycling rates than Western methods. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has now awarded the NGO profiled in Garbage Dreams a $1 million grant.

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Egypt's Green Live in Garbage

Olivia Sterns | Posted 08.08.2009 | World

Read More: Recycling, Green Jobs, Cairo, Egypt, Swine Flu, Africa, Green, Green News, Trash, Green Living, Development, Garbage, Zabaleen, Sanitation, World News
Olivia Sterns

The efficiency rate of the Zabaleen is almost 85%, rivaling the best of Western urban recycling models. Even still, the state seems intent on wiping them out.

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