Women Uprising calls for zero waste and launches an emergency center in Beit Mery

The Women Uprising group announced during a press conference held yesterday its adoption of a zero waste solution technology invented by engineer Ziad Abi Shaker, as the ideal environmental answer to the current waste management crisis in the country. The conference was also an occasion to declare the launching of the Beit Mery emergency center, under Abi Shaker’s supervision, which is the outcome of cooperation between the town’s municipality, Abi Shaker and the women’s group. In this respect, the founder of Women Uprising, Coreen Shidrawi, stressed the significant role of women emanating from their status as mothers and community partners, who struggle to find a viable way out of the garbage-related disaster that has become a source for all kinds of diseases and epidemics threatening the lives of the Lebanese people. For his part, Beit Mery mayor, Toni Maroun, clarified the rationale behind the municipality’s decision to adopt the zero waste option, praising the role of the above women group in spreading ecological awareness. (Al Diyar, Al Mustaqbal, March 18, 2016)