One man’s garbage is another man’s treasure. Short-sightedness and bad waste management practices have led to ever-growing landfills and piles of trash on streets in Lebanon, but what happens when you start thinking of trash as a wasted economic opportunity?
Watch “Trash for Profit”, episode 5 of Riwayat, now.
Director: Karem Monzer
Producer: Laudy Issa
Videographers: Abedul Karim Doghman & Maya Dakkak
Subtitles: Lynn Sheikh Moussa
Editor: Karem Monzer
With a special thank you to our featured guests:
Ziad Abichaker, CEO of Cedar Environmental
Marc Aoun, Co-Founder and GM of Compost Baladi
Samar Khalil, Environmental & Chemical Safety Officer at AUB
Karl Mhanna, Field Engineer at Compost Baladi
Rabea Touma, Lead Mechanical Engineer at Compost Baladi
And to our partners at #QaribMedia for making this possible.
Karem Monzer is a journalist, filmmaker, and artistic activist. He holds a BA in Communication Arts and MA in migration, using his degrees for documentary production and cinematography, scriptwriting, editing, and content creation. Through his work at Beirut Today, he seeks to peel the layers of communal struggle and delineate truths with imaginative and current affairs reporting.
Laudy Issa is a multimedia journalist and the Managing Editor of Beirut Today. Before COVID-19, you might have caught her tripping over wires in local theatres or gigs.
