04:33Volunteers are collecting broken glass and scrap left over from the Beirut blasts last month in order to recycle it as footage shot in the streets of the Lebanese capital shows.
"We started collecting the glass before sending it to the factories in Tripoli. We became a complete group, we organised everything and now we have a hotline through which the citizens send the location of the glass with a picture of it and we send our team to these addresses," explained Anthony Abdel-Karim, a volunteer on Thursday.
On August 4, the two blasts at Beirut's port shattered countless doors and windows in Beirut and its suburbs, and the capital's streets were covered with piles of shattered glass falling from buildings, homes and shops as a result.
In order not to be disposed of in landfills and dumped in a way that is harmful to the environment, a group of volunteers began working to collect tons of shattered glass from damaged homes and streets, clean them, and send them to a glass factory in Tripoli for recycling.
At the factory, the glass is being recycled into jars, bowls, glasses and other household items.
Lebanon: Volunteers collect broken glass from port blasts in Beirut to recycle
Volunteers are collecting broken glass and scrap left over from the Beirut blasts last month in order to recycle it as footage shot in the streets of the Lebanese capital shows.
"We started collecting the glass before sending it to the factories in Tripoli. We became a complete group, we organised everything and now we have a hotline through which the citizens send the location of the glass with a picture of it and we send our team to these addresses," explained Anthony Abdel-Karim, a volunteer on Thursday.
On August 4, the two blasts at Beirut's port shattered countless doors and windows in Beirut and its suburbs, and the capital's streets were covered with piles of shattered glass falling from buildings, homes and shops as a result.
In order not to be disposed of in landfills and dumped in a way that is harmful to the environment, a group of volunteers began working to collect tons of shattered glass from damaged homes and streets, clean them, and send them to a glass factory in Tripoli for recycling.
At the factory, the glass is being recycled into jars, bowls, glasses and other household items.
Volunteers are collecting broken glass and scrap left over from the Beirut blasts last month in order to recycle it as footage shot in the streets of the Lebanese capital shows.
"We started collecting the glass before sending it to the factories in Tripoli. We became a complete group, we organised everything and now we have a hotline through which the citizens send the location of the glass with a picture of it and we send our team to these addresses," explained Anthony Abdel-Karim, a volunteer on Thursday.
On August 4, the two blasts at Beirut's port shattered countless doors and windows in Beirut and its suburbs, and the capital's streets were covered with piles of shattered glass falling from buildings, homes and shops as a result.
In order not to be disposed of in landfills and dumped in a way that is harmful to the environment, a group of volunteers began working to collect tons of shattered glass from damaged homes and streets, clean them, and send them to a glass factory in Tripoli for recycling.
At the factory, the glass is being recycled into jars, bowls, glasses and other household items.