Report: Trash Plan Setback in Metn and Keserwan Sees a Solution

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A plan to collect the trash that has been accumulating on the streets in the northern districts of Metn and Keserewan lately will be put into implementation either today or on Tuesday, An Nahar daily reported on Monday.

The trash management plan, which saw a setback after protesters closed a location in the area of Bourj Hammoud used to store the waste, will resume and the trash will be collected in relatively remote areas, added the daily.

The plan will be put into implementation pending an expected solution that will see the garbage transferred to the landfill of Bourj Hammoud with a clear commitment from the government to implement an integrated environmental plan for sorting, processing and land-filling, it added.

A deal to transport garbage from the streets of Metn, Keserwan and parts of the capital Beirut went to a halt recently due to the closure of the Bourj Hammoud storage location.

Trash started accumulating once again on the streets of Metn, Keserwan and a small section of Beirut that are included in the trash deal to transport garbage to a temporary site in Bourj Hammoud.

Early in August, Kataeb party students forced the work to a halt at the landfill and demanded the halt to what they alleged “the project of land-filling the sea with garbage on Metn's coast.”

Lebanon's unprecedented trash management crisis erupted in July 2015 after the closure of the central Naameh landfill which was receiving the waste of Beirut and Mount Lebanon.

The months-long crisis, which sparked protests against the entire political class, saw streets, forests and riverbanks overflowing with waste and the air filled with the smell of rotting and burning garbage.

The cabinet eventually decided to establish two landfills in Costa Brava and Bourj Hammoud and to reactivate the Naameh landfill for two months as part of a four-year plan despite the rejection of many residents and civil society activists.

A landfill’s location in the Chouf and Aley areas would be determined later following consultations with the local municipalities, the cabinet said at the time.

SourceNaharnet
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Thumb .mowaten. over 7 years

indeed these squealing trash bags in head scarves look very stinky.