On Wednesday (September 09), the cabinet approved a waste management plan suggested by Agriculture Minister Akram Shehayyeb during a cabinet session unattended by Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil and State Minister for Parliament Affairs Mohammed Fneish.
The plan states the reopening of the Naameh landfill for seven days in order to dump the garbage accumulated in random sites in Beirut and Mount Lebanon after the original closure of the Naameh landfill on July 17.
The plan also reinstates the municipalities' waste management role and suggests the establishment of two sanitary landfills in the Akkar town of Srar and the Bekaa town of al-Masnaa, “using the waste management plant in Sidon” and reactivating the Bourj Hammoud landfill near Beirut.