Women at the Association for the Protection of the Environment APE are trained to recycle cardboard into souvenirs

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The suburb is home to a community of around 25000 Coptic Christians known as the Zabaleen said to be the world s greatest waste recyclers

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Location: Moqqatam, Cairo, Egypt
Photo credit: © Richard Splash / Alamy / Afripics
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