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Women of Arabsalim sort waste at the source
30-1-2019
In its issue of today, An Nahar newspaper shed light on an individual waste sorting initiative launched by Nida’ Al Ard Association in the southern town of Arabsalim. In the details, An Nahar wrote that school teacher, Zeinab Mukaled, innovated a solution for the garbage crisis in her village since 1995 when South Lebanon was still under Israeli occupation. Mukaled set a role model for other women when she motivated them to start sorting trash at the source. She told An Nahar reporter that she pulled together some 13 volunteers suggesting that each keeps the solid waste at her house and discard of the organic garbage in the street containers. “We collected the trash in the backyard of our houses. But we had to find recycling plants.” Eventually, we negotiated with a plastic factory in Tyre and a glass factory in Chweifat and also with a dealer who agreed to buy the waste metal we collected. As for cardboard, carton and paper, village women used them as fuel for baking the saj bread or as firewood in the winter season. “In a self-starting move, the Arabsalim residents today sort the waste at the source, and in a collaborative spirit of the women of Arabsalim, we are now accommodating and treating the waste of neighboring villages,” Mukaled boasted. (An Nahar, January 30, 2019)
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