TRIPOLI, LEBANON - Standing in a pile of broken glass in northern Lebanon, a man heaved shovel-loads of shards - retrieved from Beirut after the massive explosion at its port - into a red-hot furnace.
Volunteers, non-governmental groups and entrepreneurs have tried to salvage at least part of the tonnes of glass that littered the streets, some of it through recycling at the glass factory of Mr Wissam Hammoud's family. In the first days after the blast, he teamed up with civil-society organisations and a host of volunteers to come up with a plan to keep as much glass as possible out of landfills already overburdened by a decades-old solid waste crisis.
Mr Anthony Abdel Karim, who months before the blast had launched an upcycling glass project called Annine Fadye or"Empty Bottle" in Arabic, coordinates the operations.
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