Expanding Lebanon’s “temporary” landfills: an inevitability of incompetence

Yesterday, the Lebanese Cabinet of Ministers asked the Council for Development and Reconstruction (CDR) to conduct a study on the expansion of the two landfills in Costa Brava and Bourj Hamooud in 15 days. An Environmental Impact Assessment before the construction of both landfills were not prepared and both landfills face legal challenges from the Lebanese Judiciary. 

Fire at the Sidon waste management facility

Source: Times of Oman

Last Friday, a mountain of unsorted waste in the sorting facility in the southern city of Sidon caught fire. This is the second fire this facility has experienced in the last two months. While fires in solid waste facilities are not uncommon, especially in places with poor sorting and inadequate waste management practices, there may be more to these two fires.