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Solid Waste Management in Lebanon : A Dead End
By Christina Anid
December 17, 2007
 
In June 2006, Yaacoub Sarraf, the resigned Minister of Environment, saw his new plan for solid waste treatment was rejected, so he raised the alarm saying that: “Without an emergency plan, Lebanon would drown under garbage in no more than six months.” In fact, Lebanese installations, very rare and saturated, are already not enough to cater to the whole quantity of existing wastes. Several months later, the millions of tons of rubbles resulting from the destructions caused by the Israeli attacks (July 12th 2006), have made the situation even worse.
 

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The repetitive war episodes, the quasi-missing environment awareness, and the prevailing political considerations, make the wastes issue a real headache. According to Ricardo Khoury, from the environment consulting office – Elard, who contributed to the evaluation of after-war ecological damages within the United National Environment Program (UNEP), “the war made this chronic problem even worse. Israeli attacks revealed two major problems that exacerbated the dramatic Lebanese ecological situation: on the one hand solid wastes and construction and demolition remains, and on the other hand oil slick wastes. In addition, we don’t have treatment infrastructure. We barely have an infrastructure for domestic wastes.”
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