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The organization called on the ministerial committee to immediately study the roadmap presented by the Ministry of Environment on June 3, to implement the law on solid waste management, and to submit a draft Council of Ministers, which protects everyone's right to health.
"The government had four months to resolve the waste crisis in the north of the country, but it is still slow in adopting temporary measures," said Lama Faqih, interim director of Human Rights Watch for the Middle East and the Middle East. ;North Africa. Waste crisis in the country. "On April 5, the owner of the open and unregulated landfill of Adawi, used by the Minieh-Denniyeh, Kura, Zgharta and Bcharri districts for 17 years, was closed." In the absence of any Government action, the Minister of the Environment announced on August 6 that the waste would be removed from the streets and stored in a temporary site (parking) until a new site. Zgharta's population threatened yesterday to take action after the garbage invaded the streets of four northern districts.
Environment Minister Fadi Jreissati said at the end of the cabinet meeting that the solution to the triple dump problem in Minieh-Denniye district would be either the old site by completion of the work, a landfill of 600,000 square meters, the new site, which is far from the old site. A distance of one kilometer, an area of 100 thousand square meters.
Residents opposed the interim plan proposed by Minister Jreissati, saying it would be an "environmental disaster" and that they "would not accept the creation of a landfill at the expense of the health of the population ".
The Council of Ministers should not approve the extension of landfills or the construction of new landfills without first ensuring that appropriate environmental badessments are conducted, said Human Rights Watch.
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