05:12A giant Christmas tree made up entirely of recycled plastic bottles was erected in Miziara, northern Lebanon, as seen on Sunday.
Given that the dire economic situation in the country has limited the budget for the construction of a massive tree in the Lebanese town, creativity has taken over and a local association and students of a local school used more than 100,000 bottles collected during the year to build the 13-metre tall attraction.
"The iron fence was put in and we tied all the plastic bottles to the fence, in the high places we had to bring a crane in order to be able to put the plastic bottles at the top of the tree," said Antonio Chedyak, one of the people responsible for assembling the tree.
"It is certain that after dismantling the tree we will send it to factories for recycling and it will not be thrown in the street again," he added.
Rafka Faddoul, a student that also helped in building the local attraction, said, “Even though we were tired a lot and injured our hands and fell a lot of times, we seriously had a very beautiful time, and we can say that we lived a wonderful Christmas time in every sense of the word.”
Sustainable New Year! Lebanese town recycles over 100k bottles to build Xmas tree
A giant Christmas tree made up entirely of recycled plastic bottles was erected in Miziara, northern Lebanon, as seen on Sunday.
Given that the dire economic situation in the country has limited the budget for the construction of a massive tree in the Lebanese town, creativity has taken over and a local association and students of a local school used more than 100,000 bottles collected during the year to build the 13-metre tall attraction.
"The iron fence was put in and we tied all the plastic bottles to the fence, in the high places we had to bring a crane in order to be able to put the plastic bottles at the top of the tree," said Antonio Chedyak, one of the people responsible for assembling the tree.
"It is certain that after dismantling the tree we will send it to factories for recycling and it will not be thrown in the street again," he added.
Rafka Faddoul, a student that also helped in building the local attraction, said, “Even though we were tired a lot and injured our hands and fell a lot of times, we seriously had a very beautiful time, and we can say that we lived a wonderful Christmas time in every sense of the word.”
A giant Christmas tree made up entirely of recycled plastic bottles was erected in Miziara, northern Lebanon, as seen on Sunday.
Given that the dire economic situation in the country has limited the budget for the construction of a massive tree in the Lebanese town, creativity has taken over and a local association and students of a local school used more than 100,000 bottles collected during the year to build the 13-metre tall attraction.
"The iron fence was put in and we tied all the plastic bottles to the fence, in the high places we had to bring a crane in order to be able to put the plastic bottles at the top of the tree," said Antonio Chedyak, one of the people responsible for assembling the tree.
"It is certain that after dismantling the tree we will send it to factories for recycling and it will not be thrown in the street again," he added.
Rafka Faddoul, a student that also helped in building the local attraction, said, “Even though we were tired a lot and injured our hands and fell a lot of times, we seriously had a very beautiful time, and we can say that we lived a wonderful Christmas time in every sense of the word.”