After more than two months on the end of the Israeli bombings, million of tonnes of wastes stagnate in the corners of the country where savage dumping are released here and there. Near the airport at Ouzai, a mountain of wastes keeps on getting higher and higher. Formed with the debris that came from the suburbs of the south, where four hundred buildings were destroyed by the Israeli missiles, this mountain is alimented every day with four hundred trucks responsible of clearing away the 1,2 million cubic meters of debris (numbers given by the engineers order). Many NGOs watch the evolution of this operation, making sure that the debris does not pour off in the sea.

In the south of the country, 10 649 homes were destroyed (number given by the Lebanese authorities). Therefore, the dumping of this region is far more difficult to locate. In fact, it is hidden and pollutes paths and water streams. In the little village of Gandouriyé (6000 residents), trucks carry away almost one hundred thirty tonnes of debris into this dumping (concrete, batteries and electrical material, refrigerators loaded with CFCs (compounds harmful to environment especially to the ozone layer). All the every day life witnesses of the people harmed because of the bombings come across the same mounds of wastes everyday. According to Earth Link and Advanced Resources Development (ELARD) that contributed to the evaluation mission of ecological post-war damages of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), sixteen sites need an urgent cleaning-up. Among them are the electrical centre of Jiyeh where the bombing provoked an oil slick, the airport of Beirut where the bombing hit the kerosene tanks, warehouses of chemical products and detergents in Choueifat, plastic firms in Tyr and a glass production site in the Bekaa valley.

The way of treating this dumping, and establishing a management system of the wastes over a long term, need to be found. The NGOs and the environmental consultants of the World Bank and the Pnud think actively about durable solutions, where a State and municipalities are in urgent need of solutions.