Egyptian fishermen cleaning Cairo’s Nile of plastic bottles have landed quite a catch by capturing the attention of the international press, with The Guardian spotlighting how the roughly 180 fishers of Al Qarsaya Island — opposite Al Bahr Al Aazam Street — are now earning far more from harvesting plastic waste than from fishing itself. The outlet talks to Mohammed Ahmed, who now spends his mornings navigating the river to hunt for discarded plastic bottles before sending them out to a recycling facility in Sixth of…
