Report: Waste Incinerator Admitted as Industrial Oven, Start Works in a Week
Education Minister Elias Bou Saab stated on Thursday that preparations to set a waste processing incinerator in the Metn town of Dhour al-Shweir continue and that it will be completed within one week, As Safir daily reported.
“Efforts to prepare an incinerator to process the waste of Dhour al-Shweir and the neighboring towns are ongoing and they will be completed within one week,” said Abou Saad, assuring that the incinerator is environmentally friendly.
“It turned out that a private power generator used to supply power to one neighborhood generates a proportion of contamination ten times more than that caused by an incinerator,” he added.
Abou Saab pointed out that the cost of processing one ton of waste through an incinerator is $60 while the government is currently paying $160 for a ton.
Reports have said that the incinerator has been admitted to Lebanon with papers describing it as an "industrial oven," to avoid any measures against its entry since it did not receive the approval of the Interior and Environment Ministries.
The reports added that the former Minister Fadi Abboud had contributed to facilitate the entry of the incinerators being the former president the Association of Lebanese Industrialists.
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Source: Naharnet
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