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Egyptian garbage workers recycle plastic in the Manshiyet Nasr neighborhood of Cairo, Egypt June 5, 2009. The majority coptic christian garbage collectors, known as "zabbaleen", ("garbage people" in arabic), recently have had to adapt to a new way of working after the Egyptian government confiscated and killed all the pigs in their area. Pigs are important to the zabbaleen, since the pigs are used to dispose of all the organic bits of trash collected.

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Egyptian garbage workers recycle plastic in the Manshiyet Nasr neighborhood of Cairo, Egypt June 5, 2009. The majority coptic christian garbage collectors, known as "zabbaleen", ("garbage people" in arabic), recently have had to adapt to a new way of working after the Egyptian government confiscated and killed all the pigs in their area. Pigs are important to the zabbaleen, since the pigs are used to dispose of all the organic bits of trash collected.