Strait of Hormuz crisis fuels Cairo's plastic recycling business • FRANCE 24 English

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 now undergoing a dramatic transformation due to geopolitical tensions in the Strait of Hormuz, through which polyethylene from the Gulf usually passes. #Cairo #Egypt #plastic Read more about this story in our article: https://f24.my/CCth.y Subscribe t