'Drive-throw' Recycling Aims to Ease Lebanon Garbage Crisis

Beirut motorists pull up to a drive-through counter -- not for fast-food, but to exchange empty bottles and cardboard for cash, a novelty in a country long plagued by garbage crises. Festering landfills often overflow in crisis-hit Lebanon, waste is burnt illegally at informal dump sites and rubbish floats off the coast in the Mediterranean Sea. State-run recycling has largely fallen by the wayside in a nation that has been grappling with a three-year-long economic collapse, said AFP.

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