The megacity with its 25 million inhabitants lacks a formal waste sorting system.
Every day, instead, the garbage from the giant city's residents is taken to Moquattem where the zabaleen people manage the garbage disposal.
They have developed one of the world's most efficient waste sorting systems and recycle 85 percent of all waste.
In the shadow of the UN's big climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, SVT Nyheter has visited the part of Cairo where huge piles of rubbish are a normal part of the cityscape.
Meet Dawood Suleiman and the garbage people in the video above.