wafaa: i'm working in that kitchen.o, i have the big chance to go outside my home, have good friends, and income for my familyly. reporter: meanwhile, eddy bitar from the beach clean-up campaign is pursuing new solutions for beirut's waste disposal. a mobile phone app allows residents to have paper and plastic waste collected from their homes. his drivers deposit the waste in the garage, ready for a partner company to collect and recycle it. they're now getting between 60 and 100 orders a day. eddy: we do believe that there's room to grow and that people wantnt more of those services because it's helping them in their daily life. reporter: in just six months, 15,000 people have downloaded eddy bitar's app, and 5000 households are now using his service regularly. host: half of all clothes also find their way into the trash. most within a year, many of them unworn. every second, the equivalent of a truckload of textiles arrives at a trash depot or is burned, making $500 billion u.s. worth of wasted goods a year. the cloth