Shehayyeb: Government Trash Plan on the Go
Agriculture Minister Akram Shehayyeb confirmed on Tuesday that the government would carry on the implementation of its own waste management plan on ending the trash crisis, reminding that all ministers have agreed on it except for the Free Patriotic Movement.
“Facts on the ground have shown that the aforementioned plan was not the best; but there is no other solution,” Shehayyeb said after a meeting devoted to address the trash issue at the Progressive Socialist Party's office in el-Msaytbeh.
“The landfills of Bourj Hammoud and Costa Brava are the sole mandatory path towards a decentralized solution,” he said, stressing that removing trash piles from Bourj Hammoud is paramount.
In August, the Kataeb students forced work suspension at the Bourj Hammoud landfill which aggravated the trash crisis and left many streets in the Mount Lebanon and Beirut areas flooding with garbage.
Kataeb and environmental groups had accused authorities of seeking to “land-fill the sea” with unsorted and unrecycled garbage in a manner that poses environmental and health risks and violates the Convention for Protection of the Mediterranean Sea against Pollution.
In September they announced a “temporary suspension” of the sit-in that lasted for almost a month. They argued that the their protest has obliged authorities to revise a controversial waste management plan and to endorse steps based on waste sorting, composting and decentralization.
Source: Naharnet
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