Projects Database / An Integrated Waste Management Plan for Mixed Demolition Waste in South Lebanon
Project ID
00054742
Background
The immediate initiatives for the management of the demolition debris from the Israeli bombing of Beirut southern suburb and villages of south Lebanon and Bekaa have fallen short of safe treatment and disposal. Hundreds of heterogeneous piles of demolition waste, particularly in the South, remain scattered following clearance from residential neighbourhoods and removal of valuable metals for recycling.
This prompted UNDP, through its Energy and Environment Programme, with the assistance of the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA), to provide support to the government of Lebanon in handling the rubble issue. Thus, emerged the idea of a rubble recovery project to provide the necessary infrastructure/equipment for processing demolition wastes and create the opportunity for processed materials recovery and re-use.
The project aims at the following:
- Supporting the government of Lebanon in handling the rubble issue through the provision of the necessary infrastructure/equipment for processing demolition wastes.
- Improving debris management systems leading to cost savings in implementation.
- Reducing adverse environmental impacts.
- Creating the opportunity for processed materials recovery and re-use.
Achievements & Expected Results
- Performed a rubble recovery survey for the villages of all seven cazas making up the two governorates of South Lebanon and Nabatiyeh.
- Carried out a market survey on the systems, machines and techniques currently in use in the rubble recovery industry. This analysis established the basic selection criteria for the mobile rubble crushing plant.
- Prepared the Tender Documents and launched an international bid for the supply, installation, commissioning, operation and maintenance of rubble mobile crushing facilities.
- Drafted guidelines for the establishment of rubble recycling sites to assist the municipalities in the preparation and management of these sites.
- Identified Lebanese specifications of material used by the Ministry of Public Works and Transport (MoPW&T) for sub-base in construction of roads and highways.
- Identified materials laboratories that could be used to test the quality of the recycled material, and whether it matches the specifications of the MoPW&T.
- Signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Swedish Rescue Services Agency (SRSA) for the purpose of collaboration between both parties in order to meet the objectives set out for the rubble recovery project.
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Lebanon
