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World Service,12 Apr 2008,22 mins
Africa's Green Crusaders - Cleaning Up South Africa and Egypt
African PerspectiveAvailable for over a year
South Africa and Egypt are among Africa's most industrialised countries. What are people doing to improve life in polluted and dirty cities? Zabbaleen (meaning rubbish collector in Arabic) are recycling up to 85% of Cairo's waste. And Bobby Peek campaigns to tackle pollution produced by factories and refineries near Durban, South Africa.
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