Beirut launches underground systems - Free Report, Juneby Elina Haber | 17-07-2021 00:20 |
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 Every year we dump a massive 2,120,000,000 tons of waste, billions tons of waste causing us to suffer to keep our planet clean. It's estimated that Lebanon itself, produces 5,000 tons of garbage daily. Where does it go after throwing it in the trash bin? It's either dumped in the ocean or it simply stays on the ground, or worse; burned causing toxic pollution. Underground waste management helps making "zero waste" possible. So, what is this system? What countries are using this long term solution to the trash crisis? Underground waste containers are named as a compact system, they can be large or small, they are visible above-ground, and can store about 10 times more waste than their size. They make the pollution invisible, they diminish infections rate and they definitely get rid of the obnoxious smells. Industrial engineers can figure out where those life savers must be placed through different MCDM methods; MC-HLFTS, MAIRCA, and MABAC. Multi-Criteria Hesitant Fuzzy Linguistic Term Set helps determine the criteria weights using math. Additionally, the Multi-Attributive Ideal-Real Comparative Analysis ranks the alternatives of the results, then those are analyzed and compared using the MABAC method. The waste stored in the underground containers can now be collected, but how does this happen? One way is to simply elevate the cans and collect the waste using trucks, another is to eliminate the trucks' role and to install underground tubes that will take the waste to the waste management industry. Hence, the recyclable items can be thrown in these underground containers. Thus, this system can also increase recycling rates. Furthermore, this deep collection system has been developed worldwide specially in rich countries, such as Finland and Canada. Molok's Finnish underground containers are sold in 40 countries, those are placed in medium or large spaces. Less space, more storage! Their installation may be costly but emptying them can actually be easier and faster to do. With 30 years of experience, Molok finds that semi-burried containers are more beneficial than fully underground systems. Similarly, in Canada, Ecoloxia is a great example to follow. With only eleven years of experience, this company has produced different homes for the trash. For instance, the special cube containers, the tubes and the steritubes. My favorite part of this report is that I get the chance to say that my country Lebanon worked on cleaning its trash. The Lebanese company Ramco, over the last 54 years has achieved a lot in the architecture and waste's field. They recently expanded their business from only practicing industrial work to also managing waste. In 2018, Ramco installed underground containers in the country's capital city, and promised to place 250 more bins across Beirut. All in all, waste can be managed using several underground waste systems; the semi-burried bins, fully underground bins. The stored trash can be emptied by the truck, and it can be transported to the company using underground tubes. This system has been practiced worldwide even in undeveloped countries such as Lebanon. Works used are sited below:
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