Beirut motorists pull up to a drive-through counter, not for fast-food, but to exchange empty bottles and cardboard for cash, a novelty in a country long plagued by rubbish crises.
Festering landfills often overflow in crisis-hit Lebanon, waste is burnt illegally at informal dump sites and rubbish floats off the coast in the Mediterranean Sea.
State-run recycling has largely fallen by the wayside in a nation that has been grappling with a three-year-long economic collapse.
