{"id":685407,"date":"2010-03-08T13:38:01","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T18:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenrightnow.com\/?p=9672"},"modified":"2010-03-08T13:38:01","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T18:38:01","slug":"a-documentary-about-egypt%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98garbage-people%e2%80%99-a-lesson-in-recycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/685407","title":{"rendered":"A documentary about Egypt\u2019s \u2018garbage people\u2019; a lesson in recycling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From Green Right Now Reports<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/garbage-dreams\/\" ><em>Garbage Dreams<\/em><\/a> is the paradoxical title of an upcoming PBS documentary on Egypt&#8217;s Zaballeen, or in English, &#8216;garbage people&#8217;. The Zaballeen collect the trash in Cairo. They are born into the job and live on the city&#8217;s outskirts, within the large garbage village composed of Cairo&#8217;s waste.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9693\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 181px\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9693\" title=\"zaballeen\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.greenrightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/zaballeen.jpg?resize=171%2C145\" alt=\"zaballeen\" width=\"171\" height=\"145\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Egypt&#39;s Zaballeen are born into the garbage business<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>But this is not a tale of squalor and desperation. Long ago, the Zaballeen learned to support themselves by recycling 80 percent of the trash they collect.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They have created the world\u2019s most effective resource recovery system, using trash to lift themselves out of poverty and a solution to one of the world\u2019s most pressing crises,&#8221; according to promotional material for the film.<\/p>\n<p>The film follows three young teen-aged men, Zaballeen friends, who face the upheaval of their world when a corporate takeover of the trash business is considered.<em> Garbage Dreams<\/em> is part of the Public Broadcasting Service&#8217;s &#8220;Independent Lens&#8221; series. It is set to air on April 27. Check local listings for times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Green Right Now Reports Garbage Dreams is the paradoxical title of an upcoming PBS documentary on Egypt&#8217;s Zaballeen, or in English, &#8216;garbage people&#8217;. The Zaballeen collect the trash in Cairo. They are born into the job and live on the city&#8217;s outskirts, within the large garbage village composed of Cairo&#8217;s waste. Egypt&#39;s Zaballeen are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2756,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-685407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2SiX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2756"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}