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Article: A landfill called Cairo.
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- Daily News Egypt (Egypt)
- Article date:
- September 7, 2009
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CAIRO: The heaps of disgusting garbage infesting the streets and squares of all Cairo neighborhoods have been nothing short of a national scourge. The ongoing rift between the foreign cleaning companies, the government and the traditional garbage collectors has triggered a sanitation crisis in both affluent and poor neighborhoods.
During the Premiership of Atef EbeidAa in 2002, the government decided to replace the traditional garbage collector (zabal) with multinational cleaning companies and environmental conglomerates around the world in a step to introduce modern technology in collecting, sorting and recycling waste.
"Cairo produces 13,000 tons of ...