L’énergie recyclable de Ziad Abichaker

Article published in the daily Lebanese newspaper L'Orient-LeJour on Sep. 1st 2014 (in French)

"Il est à la fois passionné, poète à sa façon, un idéaliste écolo qui a su transformer ses utopies en réalité. Mettre son savoir au service d'un pays qu'il aime, et qu'il aime vert et (plus) intelligent. Ziad Abichaker, fondateur et CEO de la société de recherches et de développement Cedar Environmental, recycle les déchets des municipalités et les transforme. Il en a même fait des verres, cruches et autres vases en verre soufflé sous le label Green Glass Recycling." more

صحيفة السفير: معمل الصرفند الأخير.. لتدوير الزجاج وحماية الطبيعة

 

يعاند معمل نفخ الزجاج في الصرفند الاقفال في ظل انعدام أسواق التصريف والكلفة الباهظة للتصنيع، بين محروقات وكهرباء ويد عاملة، ما جعل هذا المحترف اليدوي الوحيد المتبقي، بعد إقفال طاول كل محترفات نفخ الزجاج في لبنان وكان آخرها معمل «البدّاوي» الذي أغلق أبوابه منذ نحو عشر سنوات، في دائرة الخطر والاحتضار المستمرين «يقفل... لا يقفل». ولولا صبر القيّمين عليه، وطول باعهم، واحترامهم لمهنة الجدود، لكان هذا المحترف الأخير قد طوى صفحته وانتهى إلى زوال. [إقرأ المزيد]

LAMASSAT (Touches): Green Glass Recycling Initiative Documentary [Arabic] [بالعربي]



للمزيد من المعلومات

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

Zbélé (Garbage): A documentary by Nadia Asfour [English]

Interview on ORBIT's Ouyoun Beirut Program about the Naameh Landfill Closure

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.

 

 



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]

 

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

 



Moving Beyond Business as Usual: Next Frontiers for CSR in the MENA region

The Suliman S. Olayan School of Business (OSB) at the American University of Beirut held the first CSR Practitioner's Conference at AUB on May 4 & 5, 2012. The conference is intended as a platform for regional business leaders to address the emerging challenges and opportunities presented by the ascendancy of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Through the gathering of renowned speakers, panels and interactive discussion forums, the conference will offer a regional platform for practitioners to network and exchange best practices in relation to effective sustainability and CSR management. Sustainable business is no longer a luxury, but a necessity in a fast-­‐paced and changing global context. Empowered citizens, consumers, and social movements across the globe are demanding that governments and businesses behave more responsibly. There is also a worldwide call to learn from the current failings of the global industrial economy and move towards more creative forms of capitalism, in which companies embrace responsible attitudes and orientations and engage in practices that expand the pie and contribute to social justice and social progress.

 

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

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