Report: Salam to Tackle Trash Crisis at Dialogue as Environment Minister Skeptical on Exporting Waste

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Prime Minister Tammam Salam is expected to address Lebanon's ongoing garbage disposal crisis at the national dialogue table later on Wednesday, reported the daily An Nahar.

Ministerial sources told the daily that the premier will in the next 48 hours hold various meetings with the concerned ministers to address the issue “until the necessary conditions to hold a cabinet session are met.”

The government will meet after the final solution to the crisis is reached, they added.

The national dialogue is scheduled to be held at Speaker Nabih Berri's Ain el-Tineh residence.

Meanwhile, Environment Minister Mohammed al-Mashnouq voiced skepticism over the current proposal to export Lebanon's waste, saying: “We will be faced with a catastrophe if officials still continue to refuse the establishment of landfills.”

“Exporting the waste is very costly at over 200 dollars per ton,” he explained.

“We are keen that any solution to the crisis adhere to the laws. Saying that there are landfills in the middle of Paris and we should follow its example is nonsense as those landfills are of the highest standard and we don't want to see the establishment of arbitrary dumps in Lebanon,” he stressed.

Lebanon was plunged in trash disposal crisis with the closure of the Naameh landfill in July.

Officials failed to find an alternative to the dump, resulting in garbage piling up on the streets of the country as experts warned of the environmental and health hazards of the crisis.

M.T.

D.A.

Comments 4
Missing humble 25 November 2015, 09:44

We have good and capable local companies.

Thumb ado.australia 25 November 2015, 13:22

We have corrupt, politically owned or allied local companies... That is the reason for the problem!

Thumb cedars2 25 November 2015, 10:59

Incompetence at its highest levels.

Thumb ado.australia 25 November 2015, 13:26

The corrupt thieving politicians own or profit from local companies, so in their nationalistic compromising position, they will export it at much higher cost to the Lebanese tax payer, so none of the politicians can profit! What a comprise. Thieves, all these scum!