WALL STREET JOURNAL: Lebanon’s Last Glass Blower Gets Boost From Recycled Bottles

 

SARAFAND, Lebanon: With the oven ablaze melting shattered glass in the workshop and the nearby store abuzz with curious customers, it is hard to imagine that just a few months ago Lebanon’s last glass blower was about to close shop for good. [read more]

Green Glass Recycling Initiative - Lebanon

GREEN GLASS RECYCLING INITIATIVE - LEBANON (GGRIL) - Photo Blog



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Press coverage of GGRIL:

 

DailyStar - Beirut : From used and shattered glass to works of art. By Brooke Anderson

 

L'Orient-LeJour - Beyrouth: Au Liban, une initiative recyclage intelligente et design. Anne Ilcinkas

 

The Cultural Thing - UK: The Art of Recycling Glass in Lebanon. By Gary Sullivan

 

Rasseef22 - Pan Arab Online Publication: Recycling Traditions in Lebanon. By Kaylyn Hlavaty

 

Eco-Terrorism - TV Program: BAAL Collection Green Glass Recycling Initiative. By Aly Sleem.

 

NOW - Online Publication: Bottles Up!! Beirut upcycling initiatives tackle Lebanon's waste problems. By Alberto Mucci

Official Facebook page of GGRIL: Green Glass Recycling Initiative - Lebanon

Barouk Cedar Reserve Acquires Portable Toilet Made from ECOBOARDS (Photo Blog)

 

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Interview With BEIRUT GREEN PROJECT

Last week we went to WonderEight‘s new offices in Mkalles for a meeting (That’s right, we’re cooking something up!) and fell in love with their small green terrace. Two things caught our attention, and they both turned out to be the work of Ziad AbiChaker from Cedar Environmental: The E-Room and the green walls. [READ MORE]

 

Eco-Boards Wins Energy Globe Award

 

Dear Mr. Abichaker,

 

you have submitted your project “ECO-BOARDS: Recycling Plastic bags into panel boards” for the  Energy Globe Award, today’s largest platform for sustainability. Over 100 countries sent at total of  1051 entries.  

 

The international jury, chaired by Maneka Gandhi, has evaluated all submissions and selected the national winners.

 

We are delighted to inform you that your submission was chosen as best project from your country and will be honored with the national Energy Globe Award Lebanon!

 

Congratulation on this outstanding achievement!

 

 

The projects of all  national Energy Globe winners including yours will be presented on 5 June, the UN’s World Environment Day to a global public on  www.energyglobe.info.

Please tell your friends and inform the media about your success! Your projects is an important success story and a motivation for others to follow your example.

 

We try to find a local partner in your country who is willing to hand over your award certificate. We try different options and maybe there is a possibility. If not, we would like to send you the certificate via courier service. Please provide us with an address (no P.O. box).

 

For any further questions please contact Mrs. Eva Werner, eva.werner@energyglobe.com

 

With our very best regards,

 

Wolfgang Neumann

ENERGY GLOBE Founder

 

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The Cedar Environmental Waste Management Model

Interview at World Bank Headquarters in Washington, DC - September 2012

For more: Waste Expert Gives Lebanon Landfill Alternative

The Accidental Artist

The Accidental Artist

It's All About PASSION - Bichaghaf Documentary

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Live Debris: A Trash Art Exhibition (circa 2008)

The show's slogan made from recuperated Poly-Styrene foam

 

 

Live Debris is an exhibition of art pieces made entirely from recuperated or recycled materials.  It aims to sensibilize citizens on the potential of trash as a renewable resource which should by all means never be burned or landfilled.

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18,333 Plastic Bags to Make a Conveyor Belt (Photo Blog)

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Le Plastique C'est Chic

In July 2012, internet articles and blogs talked about a house exhibited in Beirut made out of what was called Eco-Board panels. It was mentioned these boards were made in Lebanon out of 100% recycled plastic. But no other background information was available, neither on the internet nor on Cedar Environmental’s website – the company who manufactures these boards.
So ELHUB decided to take a closer look and headed to the mountains to meet a certain Ziad Abichaker, the contact person for Cedar Environmental.

Driving past Bickfaya towards Abou Mizane on a hot summer morning, we weren’t expecting anything much. What could Cedar Environmental be after all? Probably a group of self-righteous golden boys who quit banking in order to save the world. Or maybe some sort of public/private consortium spending away tax money on make-believe initiatives for a better future.

We could not have been further from the truth. [read more]

Lebanon’s Waste: Another Man’s Treasure

The first prefab house made from recycled plastic bags. (Photo: Cedar Environmental)

By: Rebecca Whiting

Published Monday, July 9, 2012

Landfills in Lebanon are close to overflowing and as the government’s plans for incinerators are met with protests from municipalities and environmentalists, a new solution to the growing problem is vital.

Beirut - Those passing Ain al-Mreisseh on Saturday, July 7, might have been surprised to notice a small house parked by the side of the road. Those who approached for further inspection will have marked upon the unusual multicolored and sometimes glittering marbled texture of the structure, aspects lent to it through its being built entirely of waste plastic, largely plastic bags and candy wrappers.

The house is made of Eco-Board, a material made from ... [Read More]

One Designer One Object segment about GEOM Coffee Tables Collection on Lamassat Program

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