WE ARE CROWDFUNDING....

We are taking the Green Glass Recycling Initiative - Lebanon (GGRIL) to the next level of self sustainability.  We are crowdfunding to buy a pickup truck.  Your help is highly appreciated. Please click on image below for more info.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/green-glass-recycling-initiative-lebanon-ggril/x/454318



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)

 

More on ECOBOARDS

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 Saida Trash Mountain Saga

This catastrophe has been on going since 1982.  Needless to say when incomptence coupled with corruption & greed can't lead but to such disastrous results.  In this video, one is to notice the huge divide between the official stance: "no worries, we have this issue solved and very soon all will be rosy and good", and the civil society & professionals: "This has been dragging for so long and the results to show for are way way below par, and we highly doubt that this solution will ever be workable in the long run". 
Well watch this video and judge for yourselves.

تستمر كارثة مكب جبل صيدا منذ 1982. لا شك إن عدم الكفاءة، والفساد والطمع لا يمكن أن يؤدوا إلا لهذه النتائج الكارثية. في هذا التقرير، على المشاهد أن يلحظ الهوة العميقة بين خطاب الجهات الرسمية وجهات المجتمع الأهلي والخبراء. فيما تصرّ الجهات الرسمية أن معضلة الجبل والمعمل الجديد قد حُلت وأن النتائج ستظهر قريباً وستجري الأمور على ما يرام، يصرّ المجتمع الأهلي وبعض الخبراء على أن الحل تأخر كثيراً وما هو مطروح من تقنيات لا تبعث بالإطمئنان على إستادمة العمل على المدى الطويل.ـ

 

شاهدوا هذا التقرير وإحكموا بأنفسكم.ـ (صُوّر هذا التقرير في كانون الأول 2011 ولتاريخ عرضه لم يبدأ أي عمل فعلي على أرض المكب أو المعمل)ـ

 



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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