Waste is piling up on a road in Akkar (northern Lebanon) on June 2, 2025. (Credit: Our correspondent in the region Michel Hallak)
In Beirut, in Mount Lebanon and in Akkar, the waste crisis continues. To Wajiha Yassine, director of the company Al Amana Al Douwaliya, in charge of Akkar's main landfill, Srar, in northern Lebanon, "no one can solve the waste crisis without the State."As waste continues to pile up on roads, in valleys, rivers and even agricultural and forest areas, Yassine denounced the State's inability to fund municipalities and the absence of a national management plan. "We are not the State. We cannot take on everything, and it has a cost," she added, at a time when municipalities, on the front line, no longer have the means to ensure collection.Since 2019, no improvement has been observed in Akkar, reports our correspondent in the region, Michel Hallak. The sight of illegal dumps, bad odors and pollution has become a...
In Beirut, in Mount Lebanon and in Akkar, the waste crisis continues. To Wajiha Yassine, director of the company Al Amana Al Douwaliya, in charge of Akkar's main landfill, Srar, in northern Lebanon, "no one can solve the waste crisis without the State."As waste continues to pile up on roads, in valleys, rivers and even agricultural and forest areas, Yassine denounced the State's inability to fund municipalities and the absence of a national management plan. "We are not the State. We cannot take on everything, and it has a cost," she added, at a time when municipalities, on the front line, no longer have the means to ensure collection.Since 2019, no improvement has been observed in Akkar, reports our correspondent in the region, Michel Hallak. The sight of illegal dumps, bad odors and pollution has become a...
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