Mekano Designs Renewable Energy Skyscraper For Cairo’s Garbage City

Mekano Architects have dreamed up the ultimate solution for Cairo’s Garbage City. Long an eye-sore and public health menace, the area on the outskirts of Egypt’s capital was once a recycling center for the Zabaleen. They sorted through waste and recycled it, and used pigs to devour organic waste. After swine flu emerged, however, the government culled the Zabaleen’s pigs and that waste has since stewed in its own fermenting juices. Mekano aims to put the resulting methane, and the towers of junk, to good, building use. Source: Green Prophet

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