CAIRO (AP) — Egyptians stood in line Wednesday outside a waste management station in the capital Cairo to sell their solid trash, a baby step in an ambitious project to ease the gigantic waste ...

In a part of Cairo known as the Garbage City, Magada Bamy’s hands move so swiftly that they nearly blur as she sifts through a bag of trash. “Grade A, grade B,” she mutters to herself, placing the ...

Zabaleen, an Arabic transliteration of informal garbage collectors, is sometimes used as a derogatory term. Their job is often looked down upon, even though they have long played a major role in ...