Report: Finishing Touches to Shehayyeb's Waste Plan to Be Placed Wednesday
Joint efforts by Hizbullah and the AMAL movement have led to an agreement over two sites for possible landfills to be used according to Agriculture Minister Akram Shehayyeb's waste disposal plan, reported al-Joumhouria newspaper on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Tammam Salam's sources told the daily that technical, geological, and environment experts are expected to visit the two sites later on Wednesday to determine their illegibility.
Only one of the sites will be used for a Bekaa landfill, while the other one will be established in Srar in Akkar, explained the daily.
Shehayyeb is keen to keep these Bekaa locations secret until the right moment, added al-Joumhouria given the objections of locals of various regions to allow their land to be used for garbage disposal.
A meeting was held on Tuesday between Salam, Shehayyeb, Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq and concerned officials to follow up on the waste disposal crisis and efforts to resolve it.
The officials and experts will hold a “final meeting” on Thursday to take a stand on the issue.
“A cabinet session will be called to session based on their findings and to introduce any amendments to Shehayyeb's proposal,” said al-Joumhouria.
Shehayyeb had announced on Tuesday that a landfill will be established in al-Bekaa after the necessary geological studies had been made.
He stressed that it will be a sanitary landfill that will hold the waste of nearby areas, as well as those of Beirut and its suburbs.
Lebanon was plunged in a waste disposal crisis following the July 17 closure of the Naameh landfill, which resulted in garbage piling up on the streets.
Numerous proposals had been made by officials to dump the trash in various landfills throughout Lebanon, but they were met with rejection by local residents of those areas.
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