in Egypt there's a City built entirely on garbage just a short drive from the world's most popular tourist attraction lies a place where 14,000 tons of trash are dumped every day here residents have to move mountains of garbage just to survive with no clean water unreliable electricity and the constant threat of disease life in this city is a daily battle but sometimes one man's trash is another man's treasure because here thousands of locals rely on collecting waste to to support their families and you won't believe the things they find so how much money do people make here and could you survive a day in this city where about to find out there is no space bro you get your head cut off Y [Music] where joining me on this adventure is maged a local guide from the community iy got your hat one of my goals with him is to get access into someone's home and see their living conditions and he said that we can try this later on also with us is my Egyptian friend pant who never been to garbage City before you're born and raised in Cairo yeah I lived all my life here growing up in Cairo I was always like super super over stimulated only in the last year but I started to appreciate his chaos as we're getting our heads taken off yeah yeah hi how are [Music] you look in front of us right now look at this traffic jam just trying to grab my head around what we're seeing I mean we just like boom we're here and now I'm trying to figure it out our office is like just 15 minute ride from here you never heard of this place until like is I did know it's here I just never like decided to come and walk it's not it's not the most walkable so all of the garbage here is collected from the city people go out into Cairo they grab it they collect it they bring it here separated here do people have a side business where if they find like things in the garbage and they want to sell them like watches or yeah the things yeah how do you know I think you live here yes you are right the people here very honest if you find anything things like gold like this garbage collector please come we find this yesterday yeah give it to him to them wow really didn't know that they take recycling so seriously I mean we barely even have separated trash like everywhere but they're separating it manually you know you know this they brought the the cardboard to the factory down in town called it's a lot of boxes this is not like a storage to take this to the factory to recycling everyone just working diligently in this back corner with like millions of boxes more than 90,000 people live in garbage city which is officially called manat Naser the people who live here are called the zabin who are mostly poor Christians who relocated here from Giza in the 1940s soon after that the zabin became cairo's informal garbage collectors today about 90% of them live in self-built homes often in slum-like conditions they use donkey pulled cards to collect trash across Cairo bringing it back to sort at home children handle plastic women manage cans men focus on Glass and Metal and they feed organic waste to pigs the zolene recycle up to 85% of what they collect which is much higher than the 25% average in Western countries but their way of life is under threat authorities in Cairo are in talks with big garbage companies to take over waste collection putting their economy and lifestyle at risk now there are fears they might be relocated push further outside Cairo while I understand the need for formal waste management and Disease Control I worry about what this means for the local people everything is super organized here yeah these some buildings storage bring the garbage in the first level then they gather everything in the levels does everybody here work in garbage collecting everybody I know they this called garbage City majority garbage collectors but about 20 years some people they bring machines to recycle plastic I was going to ask you are there a lot of like sickness here because of trash you know God give them the no power smell here very D very very strong I know but look here the people very happy their health very strong Egyptian immunity yes be very you know very strong I will give you some tap water to drink to off your Egyptian immunity yeah totally it really does feel like everybody's working in garbage like no one's doing anything else but collecting and every single crack is filled with garbage This Is How They transport things up to like the third and fourth floor they just have it on this pole system and they swing the bags up on a slack line everywhere you look in this community there's someone doing something in all their shops this man just came out of nowhere I don't know what he's fixing look at the B at your own risk there's a pig pan right here but it's disgusting over here like flies I'm stepping on poop do you have pigs for for food for you are you eating the pigs yes they eat the trash the pigs they eat left they eat you know the from the hotels or something like that they breed a lot thank you hashish I'm good if you could only smell this right now I have a high tolerance for stuff but this is like look what they're eating oh my God it smells like puke like that looks and smells like puke so do you know why we didn't to eat pork in Islam because this is the image that we as kids show us and they're like why would you want to eat this tea it eats rubbish oh man the sound of them eating that as a kid you see this and then you're like yep not eating that nope we are just walking through a tiny alley here with light glimmering through piles and piles of trash you just see like one woman sitting here sorting through all this trash it's unlike anything I've ever seen before and it's not like one it's like every single different house every single different block is a different woman or team of women sorting through the trash Oh you area how are you Hallelujah when they say garbage City I didn't expect it to be literally garbage City like only garbage there's nothing else to see or do here aside garbage collecting it's a bit crazy like I'm seeing when walking like brands of like super big premium Brands and then seeing it like on the floor and seeing how it ends up it's a utopian just like 10 minutes away you would have like 4 coffee and then this coffee cup ends up here and then this coffee cups in this [Music] life how are you what are you doing over here I'm covering my face here because before it broken about 50 Kil kog now 200 to go to the factory how much money do you get if you resell the glass one like this about 35 Egyptian pounds 35b l e there's like pieces of glass hitting me in the [Music] face I noticed that people here they're only like working there's no shops there's no restaurants the questions people here came here for this area after revolution they have you know Apartments this working place here but the flats outside 1% live here but 95% they have you know another places to live there so they don't actually sleep here yeah not sleep here the owner in this area sell it for the garbage collectors they use this for separated and they have factors but they Flats another side got it how much does the average person make every day from 8 a. m. in the morning until 4:00 p.
m. 250 Egyptian bound 9 hours a day yeah a day for five bucks so 50 cents an hour people they bring the garbage without money no they go to the manager of the hotels they give it to them big money every month to collect the gar because is your recycle every uh month about 1,000 where you going is go to the work you know they bring the plastic to the his Factory good luck hi so this is how they take it from the hotel like that on the truck this is after separated people go to the factory is this the biggest community in the world of garbage collectors in the world yes I just had no idea that actually all the garbage gets taken from in front of our house and everything comes here I don't know I always felt that burn it respect for some things in my country I yeah you're not tired of the smell yet I think I got used to it have you traveled a bit around Africa not yet but uh in 2 weeks I'm going to Kenya and then I mean we are technically in Africa but it's so Middle Eastern culture yes definitely the problem with not identifying yourself as African we have this culture of like we are not Arabs we are not Africans we're Egyptians yes it's it's important of course to be proud of your Egyptian ancest whatever but it's not that I'm also Arab and I'm also Afric yeah you're all yeah so how many people live here not in all the Garb City 90,000 people majority Christians Coptic Orthodox yeah you see like Jesus Jesus Christ most of the garbage collectors live here live here yeah this place yes we're just next to like all the working streets it's just across and this is where they live yes why is there like a thing in the middle here what is that every year in August 15 days we're fasting for Virgin Mary and they hung that blessing for the blesses in Egypt Islam is a dominant religion with over 90% Being Sunny Muslims but there's a significant minority of Christians who are known as Coptic Orthodox their history traces back to the very early days of Christianity way before the arrival of Islam and I came to find out that the biggest church in the Middle East is located right here in garbage City it's known as a cave church and it is a spiritual heart of the zabelin way of life it's also been on my bucket list to check out for a long time we are entering the largest church here in all the Middle East there's the second coming of Christ Jesus walking the water and Jesus was Samaritan women and Jesus want to change water to wine Moses I like Moses the 10 commandments here this church is absolutely stunning it's literally built inside of this mountain like caved in down here the weather's much cooler down here 20,000 people can pray here at once you would never think that something like this would exist in a country like Egypt and many of you guys watching this video probably didn't even know that there are other religions living in Egypt there is a thriving Christian Community there's actually a Jewish Community here too who are a little bit hidden but they do exist most of Egypt is Muslim so are there any challenges living as a Christian here no the people they love together don't ask people what's your religion no if you go to the Festival go together eat together Christian Muslim they like together they're my brothers good people do you think any of your friends know about this place I mean we all know that it exists and we all know its name and there are a couple of even jokes around its name but I don't think anyone just walks through it like how we did it's a very random thing like you texted me you're like hey I'm coming to Egypt and I have a story and I thought you're going to be like uh I don't know let's go to some Temple let's go that's what everybody does though exactly let's go to garbage City and I'm like but everybody knows about the temples and the pyramids I mean this is way Wilder yeah totally wild so far we are stking out on my mission to film inside someone's home I'm dying to see where these people sleep and eat their 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