Update: Here are the results of the campaign as shared by Uber.

I previously wrote a long post on ways to reduce waste and shared a list of Lebanese companies that recycle with all the information you need. I’m hoping that some of you have already started recycling and contacting these companies but for those who still didn’t, Uber Beirut just launched today in partnership with Live Love Beirut & Advanced Cars an initiative to encourage recycling by collecting on-demand recyclable wastes from Lebanese citizens from Uber.

All you need to do is select the UberRECYCLE Option from the app between 3pm to 8pm from July 29th through August 5th and a van will pass by to collect your bags and hand them to ARCENCIEL who will handle the recycling process. All pickups are free of charge so you have no excuse not to start recycling as of today.

Here’s how to divide your trash:
Blue bags: Plastic (i.e Water bottles, detergents, shampoo bottles, beverages…)
Black bags: Metal (i.e Tins, cans, metal caps…)
Pink: (or any other colur): Paper (i.e Newspapers, magazines, cardboard, boxes…)

If you wish to keep sending recyclable wastes to ARCENCIEL after #UberRECYCLE campaign ends, all you have to do is call 01/495561 ext 1413.

As I’ve stated in previous posts, we don’t need to wait for the government or Sukleen to start recycling and reducing waste and I’m glad to see some municipalities like Arssoun in Baabda Kaza already started doing that. We can put an end to this garbage crisis by sorting our own trash and contacting the tens of companies in Lebanon that recycle.

I’m sharing once again the list of companies that recycle in Lebanon:

Ziad Abi Chaker’s Cedar Environmental Initiative. You can read more about it [here] and contact him at the below numbers:

Office Phone: +961 1 389404
Mobile: +961 3 293222
e-mail: info@cedarenv.com(contact person Ziad Abichaker)
Address: Cedar Eco-Industrial Park, Abou Mizane, Bickfaya – Lebanon.

Here’s the full list that is being shared online:

Paper:
Earth organization – Baabda Lebanon
05/923060

Arc En Ciel – Sin el Fil
01/495561/5

Al Isgha2 Organization – Beirut
70/391908 – 03/655386

Lebanese Cardboard Corporation – Wadi Chahrour
05/940248 – 05/940403

Sipco – Kfarshima
05/433553

Sicomo – Kab Elias Bekaa
08/500550

Mimosa – Zahle/ Ka3 el Rim
06/401876/7 – 08/823600

Unipack Tissue Mill – Halat
09/478911

Glass
Soliver – Choueifat
05/803903

United Glass – Tripoli
06/389107

Al Zoujaj Al Yadawi – Sarafand/Saida
03/906091

Plastic
Arc En Ciel – Sin el Fil
01/495561/5

Al Isgha2 Organization – Beirut
70/391908 – 03/655386

Plast Wood – Sin el Fil
01/491152

Lebanese Recycling Works – Roumieh
01/890383

Kilzi – Jdeideh Fanar
01/872133/4/5

Alpha Plast Bur el Brajneh
03/750290

Lefico – Sar3een Bekaa
08/921222

Mazar Plast – Kab Elias
08/500683

Yaza Plast – Ain Baal Tyre
03/282780

Asia Plast – Tyr
03/745000

Yehya el Hariri – Saida
07/190732

Plastic South – Zahrani Saida
03/433310

Plastic Chim – Zahrani Saida
07/223535 – 03/337788

Publitex – Chouf
03/607678

Raw Materials

Runwaste – Jnah
03/901251

Charmtal – Chatilla Beirut
01/823675

Mohammad Tawil – Choueifat
05/482090

Abu Ahmad Al Achhab & Haneen – Ta3adod Riyak Baalbeck
03/201324

Ahmad Khalife – Saida
07/222106 – 03/234514

Aluxal – Choueifat
05/480406/7/8

Al Araibi – Taanayel Zahle
08/510194

Lebanese Company for Raw Materials – Baddawi Tripoli
03/281434

Electronic waste

Al Isgha2 Organization – Beirut
70/391908 – 03/655386

Be2itna – Dora Beirut
01/249653 – 71974751

Tires

MEPS – Beirut
70/391908 – 03/655386

OLA 3R – Nabatieh
03/977041