Egypt - Bringing back pig farms as a solution to trash problem

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Environment" created 3 pig farms to eliminate the garbage crisis .. The presidential adviser on the environment: There are other alternatives such as sheep and import of pigs for tourism goes .. Captain scavengers: Back swine optimal solution to the problem of garbage
Monday, October 22, 2012 - 00:35

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Manal wrote Essawy

Raised what he put Dr. Magdy Allam, Advisor to the Ministry of the Environment Saturday, for having 3 pig farms under construction under the supervision of medical, resentment presidential adviser for Environmental Affairs Dr. Khaled Alameddine, and pointed out that there are other alternatives acceptable ducks and sheep, while confirmed captain scavengers that return is the first solution to the problem of trash. criticized Dr. Magdy Allam, Advisor to the Ministry of Environment during his speech Saturday in the workshop Cairo Governorate and a pig farms between urban areas, indicating that there are 3 farms pigs under construction under the supervision of medical and veterinary services and massacres for pigs and small industries, medium and area public services and housing for workers in the region with separate home for manufacturing and collection and sorting to eliminate the problem accumulation of garbage

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that the first solution to the problem of trash is back pork again, because the pig was eating daily 4 thousand tons garbage, saying "we are Bnrf from Cairo daily 8 thousand tons trash them 4 thousand organic materials

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Re: Egypt - Bringing back pig farms as a solution to trash problem

Source: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/12/17/egypt-turns-once-again-to-pigs-copts-as-garbage-mounts/


Egypt once again turns to 'Garbage People' and pigs to solve growing trash problem
By Perry Chiaramonte
Published December 17, 2013
FoxNews.com

Overwhelmed by garbage, Egypt is turning once again to two marginalized parties for help: Coptic Christians and pigs.

For years, pigs raised and handled by Egypt's Zabaleen, or "Garbage People," were the linchpins of an extremely effective, if primitive, system of processing garbage in cities including Cairo and Alexandria. The Zabaleen, part of the Coptic Christian community that makes up 10 percent of Egypt's population, were paid to collect garbage and haul it to the outskirts of town, where pigs they tended picked out and ate the organic matter. Even the pigs' waste was recycled in many cases, dried and burned to provide heat.

But in 2009, at the height of the swine flu epidemic, the government in Egypt ordered hundreds of thousands of pigs killed. The Coptic community bitterly believed the swine flu fear was a mere pretext for Muslim Brotherhood elements within the regime of former President Hosni Mubarak regime to rid the nation of an animal held as offensive to Islam. An estimated 300,000 pigs were confiscated and killed...