在埃及首都开罗，曼希耶特·纳赛尔区的错综复杂的街道上，近12万名居民每天负责处理这座大都市三分之一的垃圾。长期以来这些从事非正规回收工作的人们一直被边缘化，如今由于霍尔木兹海峡地区地缘政治局势紧张，他们正迎来一场重大变革——以往来自海湾地区的聚乙烯原料大多经由该海峡运入埃及。
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.
由于进口原材料供应短缺，新塑料的价格也翻了一番，埃及的工厂们开始越来越多地向这个科普特人聚居区的街巷寻求帮助。当地居民每天能分拣并回收多达8000吨垃圾，其中高达90%的塑料废弃物都能重新获得使用价值。
Faced with a shortage of imported raw materials and a doubling in the price of new plastic, Egyptian factories are now increasingly turning to the backstreets of this Coptic neighbourhood, whose residents sort through and recycle up to 8,000 tonnes of rubbish every day. Up to 90 percent of the plastic waste that arrives in Manshiyet Nasser is given a new lease of life.
本报道由法国24台的玛蒂尔德·德尔维涅与格雷戈里·霍利奥克采写。
FRANCE 24's Mathilde Delvigne and Grégory Holyoke report.