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

Executive Challenge: Radio Interview on VDL 100.5 FM January 10 2014 (Arabic)

 

Executive Challenge is a weekly program on VDL radio station 100.5 FM in collaboration with EXECUTIVE magazine, hosted by Pamela Ibrahim Kosseifi.

 

 



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

 

Mühlbach 7

A-4801 Traunkirchen

 

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Trash Talk: The Possibility of Recycling Lebanon's Garbage

Via the outpost
 
 

In this episode we look at how to improve Lebanon's waste management cycle. First, we get insight on how garbage disposal In Lebanon works from Ziad Abi Chaker who is pioneering ways of turning municipal trash into treasure.

Then, we talk to the co-founder of F.E.R.N. International, Meredith Danberg-Ficarelli, an organization that is working with restaurants to improve their environmental impact by introducing a recycling system in their kitchens.

  

Music

Floyd the Locsmif - Welcome
Sesame Street - I Love Trash
The Simpsons - The Garbage Man Can
Ayo - Help Is Coming

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

EARTHRISE: Trashing Lebanon (Al Jazeera English)

The following documentary was aired on Al Jazeera english as part of the EARTHRISE environmental show.

 

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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]

Radio Interview on Waste Management - Voix Du Liban (Arabic)

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In Lebanon: Building Resource Recovery Capabilities and a Prefab House

by HOWARD J. BROWN on JULY 17, 2012

At dMASS.net, we generally focus on resource input reductions rather than resource recovery or pollution and waste prevention for several reasons:

• Recycling and waste reduction efforts are widely reported elsewhere.
• Recycling often makes resource waste more economical. A variety of businesses and public entities become dependent on maintaining a flow of resource wastes in order to survive.
• Ultimately, the only way to dramatically reduce waste is to reduce resource use in the first place.

Yet there is no question that using resources mined above grade uses significantly fewer resources than manufacturing products with virgin resources. And once in awhile a project comes along that is so outstanding it merits our attention. For example, Cedar Environmental of Lebanon, founded and headed by Ziad Abichaker, developed Eco-Prefab 1.0, an extraordinary prefabricated house constructed with 100 percent recycled materials.

Eco-Prefab 1.0 was built using 146,000 plastic bags. (Photo: Ziad Abichaker.)

I met Ziad last year when we were co-presenters at the Eco Meda conference on waste management in Barcelona.  Ziad has been building the social enterprise Cedar Environmental by engaging the citizens of many small Lebanese communities in resource recovery. No such efforts have ever been undertaken in these communities, and there is little or no waste management or industrial infrastructure to support such an enterprise. Yet he and his colleagues are creating a viable and growing business based on a commitment to the environment. Moreover, they’re transforming resources into products that meet the needs of the citizens of those communities. Ziad, an engineer, is designing the technology for an entire local resource ecosystem.

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.

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

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More on GEOM Coffee Tables Collection made from recycled plastic bags here

Interview About Zero Waste Philosophy - LBC SAT June 2012

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Lebanon’s 2012 Meat Crisis: Only as Rotten as You Want It to Be!

May 2, 2012
John Jeha – Hay Khabriyeh!

Reports surfaced few weeks ago about rotten meat in the Lebanese market. It was widely reported that a number of companies responsible for Lebanon’s meat imports had been distributing rotten Brazilian beef throughout the market causing a number people to fall ill. Lebanese authorities were swift on cracking down on meat distributors and in the process found two warehouses stocked with 300 tons of what was deemed inedible meat due to the fact that it had outlived its shelf life of around three months and was considered rotten.

The contemporary media often presents such events with no follow up on their future outcomes. Thus, denying the public the ability to understand how the news has an impact on our lives on a broader scale, and overlooking the solutions that arise. Criticisms directed at the merchants and the regulating authorities took place, as expected of a responsive and active media. However, just as shocking events come and go from our news cycle, few have brought up the more pressing and urgent problem left in the scandal’s wake: now that the meat has been detained, what should be done to dispose of it?

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Launch of the GEOM collection of coffee tables made from Recycled Plastic Bags

The Geom Collection is a set of small coffee tables with geometric shape tops made entirely from recycled plastic bags. 

• Eco-Board is a process to recycle plastic bags and plastic scrap (cups, plates, cutlery, CD's, toothpaste tubes, tetrapak juice & milk packages) into plastic panel boards.
• Eco-Board was invented by Cedar Environmental, a Lebanese environmental and industrial engineering organization.
• Eco-Boards are meant to replace wood or steel boards in most construction applications. Used for fencing or prefabricated house modules.
• A typical Eco-Board weighs about 15 kilograms and diverts about 2500 shopping plastic bags from ending up in a landfill or scattered on roads and forests.
• Eco-Boards are manufactured without any chemical or industrial additives. They are entirely made from reclaimed plastic bags. They are resin free and chemicals free.
  They have been processed at high temperatures to kill all potential pathogens. Eco-Boards are considered "sterilized" grade.
• Each GEOM coffee table will have 300 grs. worth of Eco-Board or about 50 plastic bags.
• Each GEOM coffee table is UNIQUE since the pattern of Eco-Board is completely random; there are no identical GEOM Tables.
• Currently, Cedar Environmental is developing the process of making Eco-Boards to rely solely on alternative/renewable energy.
  
  

Come join us this Saturday April 21 2012 for the launch party at PLAN BEY Mar Mikhael, Achrafieh (25 meters before the Fire Department) 01-444110 from 18:00 to 20:30.

Update: Pictures of the event are shown in this slideshow: