Cash for trash: Egyptians in Cairo can sell their garbage

CAIRO (AP) — Egyptians stood in line Wednesday outside a waste management station in the capital Cairo to sell their solid trash, a baby step in an ambitious project to ease the gigantic waste management problems afflicting this city of some 18 million.
Those in the queue outside the station — a large and colorful kiosk standing on a sidewalk in Cairo’s leafy suburb of Heliopolis — carried bags of old school books, plastic water bottles and other recyclable material. They