Only a few really recycle. Rubbish piled high in the streets of beirut after lebanons largest waste dump closed in 2015. It was already groaning under 15 million tons of excess trash. Thousands took to the streets to protest against the situation. Has anything changed since then . Repoporter the bebeaches in e lebanese c capital beirurut coue beautiful. But the realitisis they oftften half burieied under garbrbage. So thehese young peoeople ae getting ready to transform their local beach. Theyre taking part in a campaign called run and clean. Its the brainchild of eddy bitar and his ngo live love beirut. The group spends part of the time jogging and the rest picking up litter. The events draw up to 200 people. Many young people in particular are fed up of waiting for the lebanese government to take the initiative. Eddy this is part of the outcome of the crisis that we had a few years ago. We see that people are more and more concerned witith all the problems facing the environmnmt in l
Streets of beirut after lebanons largest waste dump closed in 2015. It was already groaning under 15 million tons of excess trash. Thousands took to the streets to protest against the situation. Has anything changed since then . Repoporter the bebeaches in e lebanese c capital beirurut coue beautiful. But the realitisis they oftften half burieied under garbrbage. So thehese young peoeople ae getting ready to transform their local beach. Theyre taking part in a campaign called run and clean. Its the brainchild of eddy bitar and his ngo live love beirut. The group spends part of the time jogging and the rest picking up litter. The events draw up to 200 people. Many young people in particular are fed up of waiting for the lebanese government to take the initiative. Eddy this is part of the outcome of the crisis that we had a few years ago. We see that people are more and more concerned witith all the problems facing the environmnmt in lebanon. And we are very happy to see that all the peo
Streets of beirut after lebanons largest waste dump closed in 2015. It was already groaning under 15 million tons of excess trash. Thousands took to the streets to protest against the situation. Has anything changed since then . Repoporter the bebeaches in e lebanese c capital beirurut coue beautiful. But the realitisis they oftften half burieied under garbrbage. So thehese young peoeople ae getting ready to transform their local beach. Theyre taking part in a campaign called run and clean. Its the brainchild of eddy bitar and his ngo live love beirut. The group spends part of the time jogging and the rest picking up litter. The events draw up to 200 people. Many young people in particular are fed up of waiting for the lebanese government to take the initiative. Eddy this is part of the outcome of the crisis that we had a few years ago. We see that people are more and more concerned witith all the problems facing the environmnmt in lebanon. And we are very happy to see that all the peo
A lot of burden to our way and waterman and also Communities Security and when we talk about this were not just talking about the people who live close to these facilities but also the people who have to work in the facilities what do you know about that yes ill see and people. Just. And also around. Surprisingly. There are lots of activities. In panama recycling activities where communities and villages and new recyclers. In that moment we come back to her i want to show you a couple of things that we missed you for a moment do you pick up for us for a moment ok yeah yes yeah ive seen the newly new business opened up because communities bought and wanted. Bought and wanted plastics from Plastic Recycling companies and Paper Recycling companies because it was smuggled it when. Imported by the company and the and one to. Actually also on li utilize or sold by communities maybe only 20 or 30 percent and the rest of it was just burned and. As we know about to make plastics to make plastic
This is making an untreatable disease treatable. Alison riske and then we have the mixed doubles and in the cricket new zealand are playing india. Ben has the weather. One or two showers are forecast. Some hefty downpours elsewhere but nothing like the rain we have seen on the other side of the pond. Some oppressive pictures for you. Also coming up, i am 0k oppressive pictures for you. Also coming up, i am ok for the next decade and all of us here because we will not face the problems. But the problems in the next 20 to 30 years and major ones that will cause great social unrest. Upping the heat Sir David Attenborough criticises World Leaders who he says are not doing enough to address Climate Change. Hello everyone this is afternoon live im simon mccoy. He cant have been up very long this morning before President Donald Trump took to twitter to write more personal comments attacking the uk ambassador to washington Sir Kim Darroch. a wacky ambassador, he says not someone we are thrille