Geagea: Trash Crisis Will not Pass Without Accountability
Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea stressed on Thursday that the waste management crisis that drowned the capital and Mount Lebanon with trash for almost 10 days will not pass by without accountability.
“In all cases, the trash crisis issue will not pass without accountability,” said Geagea via Twitter.
“Today, no human mind can accept landfilling waste at an altitude above 1,000 meters because that contaminates the groundwater and destroys the health of the Lebanese,” he added.
Beirut has drowned in a trash crisis management and the streets overflew with waste since the closure of the Naameh landfill on July 17.
Naameh landfill receives the trash from Beirut and Mount Lebanon.
The main company in charge of collecting trash stopped its work as well amid a dispute over the country's largest trash dump.
The collection restarted after a temporary deal was found to begin taking trash to several landfills in undisclosed locations.
Some of the temporary deals suggested by few parties was to dump the garbage in areas of Mount Lebanon mainly in areas that have been eroded by stone crushers.
However, officials of the said areas refused the suggestion saying that dumping trash at high altitudes affects the groundwater and harms the residents.
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