One person's trash is definitely another person's treasure in Lebanon, but record inflation and the tanking economy have made finding it a lot harder.
Shortages of basic goods have hit Lebanon as its leaders do little to resolve a long-running currency crisis that has sparked despair and desperation., who works a coastal neighborhood just north of Beirut, see the effect of that economic devastation everywhere.and things like that. Now we have to,” Hmood said.
Even more dire, shops and traders use an unofficial, street exchange rate that puts a can of Coke at the astronomical price of 55,000 lira. At those heights,As trash pickings become so much slimmer, competition for them has grown fiercer. Some neighborhood dumpsters are now subject to low-level turf wars between different groups of sorters. The profile of those who comb through garbage has changed as well.
Sorters like Shaher and Mulhaq are, almost literally and metaphorically, at the bottom of the heap, where eking out even a threadbare living requires constant vigilance. Wake up late in the morning and you’ll have to content yourself with scraps left by rivals rifling through. Come back from a bar crawl in Beirut’s party strip and you’ll catch children peering over the lip of a garbage bin, eyeing empty beer bottles and once-scorned cans just as the night’s revelries come to a close.
, not to mention limits on withdrawals, mean people need the cash that unregulated work like gleaning from garbage can provide.But a lot of recyclable items aren’t getting thrown out anymore, AlSet said, because their owners are feeling financially pinched themselves. In 2015, when the main company in charge of Beirut’s waste management shut down, garbage
Hmood, his 13-year-old son — who has never been to school — and his brother send a portion of their earnings in Lebanon to 25 family members back in Syria.
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