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INDEPENDENT LENS: Garbage Dreams
Event Type:  Premiere Screening
04/27/2010 @ 10:00 pm to 11:00 pm
This Week on Independent Lens

GARBAGE DREAMS
Tuesday, April 27 at 10 PM
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Welcome to the world's largest garbage village located on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt. The Zaballeen (Arabic for "garbage people") recycle 80 percent of the trash they collect -- far more than other recycling initiatives. But now multinational corporations threaten their livelihood. Follow three teenage boys, born into the business, who are forced to make choices that will impact the survival of their community.