EconomyHormuz crisis fuels Cairo’s plastic recycling business

In Cairo’s Manshiyet Nasser district, nearly 120,000 residents process a third of the megacity’s waste each day. The informal recyclers, long marginalised, are being transformed by geopolitical tensions in the Strait of Hormuz, a usual route for polyethylene from the Gulf.

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