Community Recycling In Lebanon

How can A.C.S community make recycling more interesting?

Alex Fouladfard, Rafaelle Geday

Mohammad El Zaim , Kamal Badreddine

Science Fair

Table of Content

Introduction: 3-4

Material and Methods: 5

Result: 6-7

Discussion: 8

Conclusion: 9

Acknowledgments: 9

Glossary: 10-11

References: 11

Introduction For many years Lebanon has been struggling to find and eco friendly solution for the garbage crisis. Lebanese people started being aware of the pile of garbage dumped on landfills. With the government not finding a good solution protest from Lebanon went on the street asking the government to find a good way to take care of the garbage. The government responded but it was a solution that would harm the environment. Protester

Then, the bottles are sorted and then crushed into small pieces then it is compressed into thin sheets, which are used to create new bottles but, this does not come cheap. Lebanon pays 216 million dollars just to create new bottles but, this does not come cheap. they could build and keep a recycling factory running with only 20-30% of how much they sukleen. Our engineering goals for our project is to create a functional vending machine that citizens would put there water bottles inside to get vouchers which will convince people to recycle more by putting there water bottles inside our vending machine. When people put their water bottles in the vending machine it will drop out vouchers from different stores. We got this idea by simply looking. By looking at the world around us and noticing the pollution are us. Especially Lebanon since the garbage is now one of the biggest problems that we have (us being Lebanese citizens) We realised that we had to find a way to change it. What we hope to achieve during this project is to create a machine that can promote people to recycle by giving them a reward for recycling. Our idea is to create a vending

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Glossary:

Recycling:

converting waste into reusable material

Eco-Friendly:

not harmful to the environment

Environments:

the surrounding in which a person, animal or plant operates

Landfills:

the disposal of waste and material by burying it

Government:

a group of people with the authority to govern a country

Revolution:

a forcible overthrow of a government or social order, in favour of a new system.

Protest:

a statement or action expressing disapproval of or objection to something

Compress:

flattened by pressure

Acid Rain: rainfall made so acidic by atmospheric pollution that it causes environmental harm, chiefly to forests and lakes. The main cause is the industrial burning of coal and other fossil fuels, the waste gases from which contain sulphur and nitrogen oxides which combine with atmospheric water to form acids.

Factory:

a building or group of buildings where goods are manufactured or assembled

Functional:

of or having a special activity, purpose, or