In Beirut, a French company offers a second life to grain from port silos

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Robin Cres, engineer at Recygroup, at the foot of the gutted grain tanks in the port of Beirut.

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By: Noé Pignède Follow

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Lebanon commemorates this Wednesday the one year of the explosion of the port of Beirut.

The double explosion which left more than 200 dead and thousands of injured also destroyed a large part of the city.

Starting with the port and its huge grain silos.

Today, these grain reservoirs threaten to collapse.

A French company and its Lebanese partners were tasked with cleaning up the thousands of tonnes of grain they contained, before its possible destruction. 

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