Social entrepreneurs tackle Lebanon's trash crisis

The piles of garbage in the streets and alongside the river in Beirut have left the door open for creative entrepreneurs and organizations to offer solutions.

Kassem Kazam is one such entrepreneur. The computer engineer is taking aim at two longstanding issues plaguing Lebanon: unemployment and rubbish.

Launched on October 30, Recycle Beirut aims to employ underprivileged residents to pick up and sort recyclable waste in the Beirut and Mount Lebanon areas.

“The idea is to have homes and businesses registered with us, and every two weeks or so we pass by and collect the sorted trash,” Kazam told Wamda. He and his partner, who chose to remain anonymous, have been working their idea for some time. “We’ve been working on this idea for two years, because we were convinced that recycling is something that should just happen in Lebanon.”

Their initiative couldn’t come at a better time.

Original article by Maysaa Ajjan

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Social entrepreneurs tackle Lebanon’s trash crisis