Culhane on Philadelphia's WHYY Radio with film director and producer Mai Iskander

  It was an honor for me to share the radio broadcast this morning on Philadelphia's WHYY Radio with film director and producer Mai Iskander, talking about the need for source separation and ways to bring the Zabaleen Recycling Ethic to the rest of the world and give Cairo's Zabaleen the proper returns to their investment in helping turn "garbage into gold".

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Garbage Dreams | Radio Times | WHYYhttp://whyy.org/cms/radiotimes/2010/02/01/garbage-dreams/

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The Zaballeen are the people of the poor neighborhood of Cairo, Egypt, who have developed an economy from collecting the city’s trash for generations. These 60,000 ‘Garbage Collectors,’ independent from ...

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Hanna Fathy Rostom

Also now we preduce gas for cooking and compost for planting our community and use this gas to generat electricity

February 1 at 9:18pm ·

Hanna Fathy Rostom

and reduce co2 by the most new technology (the biogas) and we have also solar heaters from used material and we are thinking now to make every thing clean and sustainable

February 1 at 9:22pm ·

Thomas Henry Culhane

Thanks for your comments Hanna! It is great for our friends around the world to hear directly from you, a leading member of your community, the Zabaleen community, of the power of visionary Garbage Dreams by those who make the good dream a reality! We've only just begun -- home-made solar heaters and organic-waste-to-clean-biogas, to greywater, ... See Moreself-installed photovoltaics and wind energy, and rooftop gardens, we aren't going to stop until there is no garbage left in the world -- only endlessly recyclable resources properly used! Shukran, thanks for teaching the rest of us your community's ethic.

February 2 at 12:30am