Amid the present trash crisis in Lebanon, the Baysoor Women Association point out to their pilot project launched earlier in April 2014 and aimed at mainstreaming at sorting solid waste at the source. The president of the Association, Wafa Malaeb,explained that the project began with the manual sorting of the raw solid waste by workers contracted and paid by the association. Malaeb said the Municipality of Baysour was very supportive and provided a fenced piece of land to facilitate the process. For its part, the United Nations Human Settlements Program offered a hydraulic piston press and a hangar for separation and sorting. Mayor Walid Abu Harb Aridi stressed the need to further support and up scale the project through the involvement of other environmental organizations and activists, noting that his municipality is seeking to replicate the initiative in villages and towns affiliated to the Federation of Municipalities of Al Gharb and Shahar area. Aridi revealed that the municipality is already distributing to households colored bags designed for sorting and recycling. Likewise, the former president of Baysoor Women Association, Nojoud Aridi, highlighted the financial return of the project, noting that one ton of tin collected from soft drinks cans and canned foods, can be sold at $1200; one ton of thin glass at $40; pressed carton at $80; polyester at $300 and plastic up to $400. (Al Mustaqbal, 8 August 2015)