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Strait of Hormuz crisis fuels Cairo's plastic recycling business

In the heart of the Egyptian capital Cairo, within the labyrinthine streets of the Manshiyet Nasser district, nearly 120,000 residents process a third of the megacity's waste every day. Long marginalised, these informal recycling specialists are…

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Published2 h ago (Thu, 08 Oct 2026 09:44:31 GMT)
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AuthorMathilde DELVIGNE