Cairo

__Cairo__ ﻿   Manshiyet Nasser is a poor region in Cairo, Egypt. This area has little to no clean water. The people here recycle their own garbage. Their name in Arabic is Zabaleen, which means "garbage collectors." Eighty percent of this area's garbage is recycled in their own community. The income earned by some of the residents of Manshiyet Nasser is less than $1 a day. They even recycle their organic waste by feeding their pigs. Procter and Gamble has invested their money in a recycling school in Manshiyet Nasser. They are teaching people there how to recycle properly. This school has taught over 150 children in the past 6 years to recycle almost a million plastic containers! The residents of Manshiyet Nasser are also working with a group called Solar Cities to build solar hot-water heaters. The heaters are even made from recycled plastic! Comments: It's amazing that the one of the poorest regions in the world is recycling more than the U.S. which is far more developed than Cairo. We have the industrial equipment and yet we recycle less than most nations. In my opinion, many Americans just don't care about their environment, but to the people of Cairo, recycling is a way of surviving.