Following a meeting with Minister Chehayyeb, the delegation noted that residents of the said town are not divided, stressing that Ain Drafil’s mayor will hold talks later during the day with the minister.
The proposal presented by Minister Chehayyeb and a number of experts calls for reopening the Naameh landfill for a period of seven days in a bid to get rid of wastes accumulated in the streets of Beirut and Mount Lebanon.
The plan also stipulates turning two existing dumps, one in the Akkar town of Srar and another in the eastern border area of al-Masnaa, into sanitary landfills capable of receiving trash for more than a year.
Lebanon has been grappling with a waste crisis following the July 17 closure of the Naameh landfill.
The cabinet pledged last year that the said landfill would be shut down and an alternative site would be found, however failed to live up to its promises.
The piles of garbage rotting in the summer heat triggered nationwide outrage and serious health warnings.
Following the closure of the landfill, civil society activists have been staging protests that grew into a popular uprising against the political class that has dominated the country since its civil war ended in 1990.