Recycling Beirut

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Nidale Abou Mrad reports from her native Lebanon on a crisis of stinking household waste and how citizen activists are stepping in to do the authorities’ job in cleaning up.

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is the BBC.
0:10.0	Welcome to assignment here on the BBC World Service, where this week we're talking garbage.
0:17.0	In a warehouse in the hills of southern Lebanon, an old lady showing a group of school
0:27.1	children and a teacher how she operates a machine to crush old plastic bottles.
0:34.7	Did you learn something today from Zayana?
0:37.3	Recycle the garbage.
0:40.8	Zayana Buellid is 81 years old and moves slowly.
0:45.0	She's quite frail these days, but mention household rubbish and her eyes light up. The sea is being polluted.
0:55.0	The sea is being polluted.
1:00.0	Chaos is ruling.
1:01.0	The Lebanese people are more informed than their government.
1:04.0	Instead of the government leading the people, the people are begging the government to help them take care of the garbage issue.
1:11.0	Zainab has become something of a local hero.
1:15.0	22 years ago, during the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon,
1:20.0	rubbish collection was severely disrupted.
1:23.0	So she and her friends set up a recycling scheme for Arab Salim,
1:28.0	the village where they live.
1:30.0	They call it the call of the earth.
1:32.0	And ever since, they've been showing other people how to clean up.
1:37.0	They are contacting us from all over Lebanon to ask us how we do it. So they follow our example.
1:50.0	They come to us and we reach out to them. They appreciate it and they really like our work.
1:57.0	What pollutes the soil, garbage throwing the garbage in the open air.
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