BEIRUT, LEBANON, May 2018 – Garbage in Lebanon has not been picked up and incinerated for several months, and toxic gases have started rising over the shore, where most of the dumps are concentrated; this is now an issue that is internationally noticed. Scroll down for the video
The population of Lebanon is over 4 million and is still relatively growing. Therefore, the country cannot afford such unhealthy and fatal natural of an environment.
A panel of foreign experts and environmentalists meeting in Nicosia, Cyprus is warning of an ecological disaster. Activists are protesting in Beirut denouncing the moribund and dysfunctional government as well as the defunct You Stink Campaign, which achieved nothing two years ago but confusion and mayhem.
“We foresee pulmonary complications and skin inflammations in Lebanon if a solution is not found very soon,” warned environmental health specialist, Dr. Mark Bloomfield, a Briton speaking in Nicosia today. “The entire international community has to begin worrying,” warned Yaser Mehrez. “At least countries around the Mediterranean basin need to step in and avert a health disaster that can spread with the unchecked flux into Lebanon,” he added.
Lebanon’s garbage crisis is becoming a threat to the entire Mediterranean environment, according to a number of the country’s leading experts and academics. “The root of this issue is what has to be solved in order to see a real change,” stated Paul Abi Rached, director of the Lebanon Eco Movement alliance of non-governmental organizations.
“They are throwing everything in the sea – directly, what is happening is dangerous,” he added.
The protestors finally vowed to storm the Beirut municipality building in the heart of the Lebanese capital demanding reforms and a more eco- sensitive municipal council. Hopefully these demands will be reached throughout time.
Sofia Chantra 