Lebanon looks to recycling to rid streets of garbage
Beirut, Lebanon--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...
Turkish band recycles rubbish into sounds
A percussionist who specialises in Latin jazz, Artuc bangs on discarded plastic mannequins to produce various sounds for Fungistanbul.
Israel startup pays virtual coin for trash collection
The scheme aims to encourage citizens to pick up trash in a country ranked among the world's leading litter producers.