Waste management: a collective duty

The waste management crisis has been a good awareness campaign for recycling. In the past two months, there have been numerous reports of municipalities demanding residents sort their waste at home. Zero Waste Act — a private-sector recycling initiative reports a deluge of interest from people who want to divert some of their trash from open dumps and parking lots. Ditto Arcenciel, an NGO with a recycling program. Both are also working more with municipalities since the crisis erupted. This is encouraging, but let us not be fooled. Well-intentioned interest will not be enough to get recycling going. To be an effective part of our future waste management, recycling needs an entire infrastructure and the number of local governments and individual people recycling must grow substantially. The national waste management plan Lebanon may soon begin implementing envisions training municipalities on modern trash treatment practices and giving them funds to implement