STARTUP
Diwama
Diwama is a tech startup that is introducing artificial intelligence into waste management to drive recycling revenues and enhance operational efficiency across the waste value chain.
Diwama sells a hardware and software-based solution to waste-sorting facilities to collect smart data on waste streams, thus promoting transparency and traceability.
Diwama’s vision is to make waste management seamlessly accessible and affordable for the whole world through AI and the IoT.
Diwama's Story
In 2015, the Lebanese waste crisis was featured on global news. I was doing my Civil and Environmental Engineering degree, and I discovered my passion to solve the Lebanese and world’s most pressing environmental issues, especially the solid waste management problem. It never started as a business but always as volunteering, where I proposed an integrated solid waste management plan to multiple municipalities, I organized multiple beach and street cleanups with 50+ volunteers, I picked up recyclables from my previous company and neighbors and sent them personally for recycling, I provided awareness campaigns for sorting at home to multiple households and was part of the Zero waste campus at NDU. After all my volunteering, I thought that if I do it for free then why not as a business?