Cairo's contested Garbage
Wael Salah Fahmi
Broschiertes Buch

Cairo's contested Garbage

Sustainable waste management system and Zabaleen's right to the city

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The study explores the Zabaleen s contested geography and spatial strategies in relation to their right to inner city areas and future relocation to Cairo s suburban new settlements . Over the decades, the Zabaleen waste (garbage) collectors of Cairo, have created what is arguably one of the world s most efficient and sustainable resource-recovery and waste-recycling systems. Yet the continuation of this intricate relationship between community, environment and livelihood is jeopardised by the official privatisation of solid waste services through contracts with technology-intensive multinatio...