Community-led waste management at scale
Most city governments in the global South struggle with waste collection, which typically accounts for up to 30% of the municipal budget but often leaves large sections of the population with no service.But over the last 70 years in Cairo, a community waste collection and management system has developed, providing what local government cannot – a regular, door-to-door, low-cost, labour-intensive service with high levels of recovery/recycling that contributes to poverty alleviation through the jobs it creates.
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