Shehayyeb and Safa Discuss 'Safe' Landfill Location in Bekaa
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A meeting was reportedly held on Tuesday between Agriculture Minister Akram Shehayyeb and Hizbullah's top security official Wafiq Safa to collaborate on finding a landfill location in Bekaa in light of the aggravating trash management crisis.
The meeting between the two men was meant to find a “security and environmentally safe” location for a sanitary landfill in Bekaa, reports said.
Shehayyeb's waste crisis plan has received momentum from the interlocutors at the national dialogue meeting a day earlier, where all parties have unanimously agreed to provide support which prompted PM Tammam Salam to wonder about the identity and the forces driving some parties to reject the plan, the reports added.
Efforts to complete Akkar's Srar landfill are ongoing as part of Shehayyeb's plan, and Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq has received on Tuesday a delegation of mayors and municipalities of Akkar who approved the creation of the landfill.
Implementing Shehayyeb's trash plan will start when a decision on creating a landfill in Bekaa is finalized completing a balanced chain to dump Beirut's waste in Naameh, Srar as well.
The minister's proposal calls for the reopening of the Naameh landfill whose closure on July 17 sparked the country's unprecedented garbage crisis.
It also envisions converting two existing dumps, in Srar and al-Masnaa, into sanitary landfills capable of receiving trash for more than a year.
However the location in east Lebanon's Masnaa area was scrapped after a study showed it would contaminate the groundwater.
After he announced his plan last month, the civil society and local residents of Akkar, Naameh, Majdal Anjar, and Bourj Hammoud protested against the step.
Experts have urged the government to devise a comprehensive waste management solution that would include more recycling and composting to reduce the amount of trash going into landfills.
Environmentalists fear the crisis could soon degenerate to the point where garbage as well as sewage will simply overflow into the sea from riverbeds as winter rains return.
07 October 2015, 09:44
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and who is wafik Safa for a minister or the government to coordinate its plans with? Safa is the head of security of a terror organization, full stop.
07 October 2015, 15:09
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bravo ex-fpm! spoken like a true patriot!
(an israeli patriot that is)
08 October 2015, 11:34
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to think naharnet's moderators have specifically approved and published the 3 above comments says a lot about how low you have fallen.
07 October 2015, 10:00
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when are they going to discuss the opening of the recycling plants set up by EU and that never worked because it is against the interests of the local politicians?
when are they going to discuss about recycling and using bio mass to fuel energy plants?
etc etc...
no serious discussion around this because it is not in the financial interests of the politicians...
all developed countries are finding solutions to recycle and safely dispose of garbage except in Lebanon....
07 October 2015, 10:19
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Please send it out of the country, to Syria to Germany to the moon because there is no one qualified enough in power to make a decision about the safety of landfills and its impact on our resources. After this mess is cleared you can take your sweet time working out the commissions and whats the best way to benefit from the garbage. You DONT wait until there are mountains of it to come up with vague solutions, this is called thinking ahead and managing the different departments who are responsible to keep the streets clean. In Lebanon we wait for it to happen (ie flooding from blocked drainage) till we find some sort of a solution. Garbage brings a host of diseases and rodents, we are in the 21st century, the smoke from the generators because of power cuts pollutes the air we breath and causes acid rain to be absorbed by the earth poisoning our precious land and water resources. We have a jewel in the hands of a bunch of warlords and thugs. Enough is enough.
08 October 2015, 07:45
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what the hell is happening here ? why aren't you moving the garbage in the country !!!!!!!!! the whole world is laughing at us and perking their noses in disgust .
