‘Drive-throw’ recycling aims to ease Lebanon garbage crisis

‘Drive-throw’ recycling aims to ease Lebanon garbage crisis

BEIRUT –

Beirut motorists pull up to a drive-through counter, not for fast-food, but to exchange empty bottles and cardboard for cash, a novelty in a country long plagued by garbage crises.

Festering landfills often overflow in crisis-hit Lebanon, waste is burnt illegally at informal dump sites and rubbish floats off the coast in the Mediterranean Sea.