Tsu-Naameh

ENAR

Typically, not much thought is given to trash once it’s removed from the home — out of sight, out of mind. Not so in Lebanon. The problem of garbage disposal in the country has become a chronic and pressing issue. Every couple of years, the issue comes to a head: for one reason or another, trash isn’t removed from the streets, a public outcry ensues and the government devises yet another plan to fix the problem once and for all. Yet somehow, these plans always go unimplemented. Instead, bandaid solutions are applied with the promise that a long term plan will be studied. And once public outrage subsides, the issue is pushed to the side and all but forgotten. In the latest iteration of this cycle of inaction, last month the government outlined an amended plan for waste management through a short (and hence vague) resolution that organized the country