Waste disposal centers face uphill battle against mountains of trash
With all 18 planned facilities operating at full capacity Lebanon will still be left with a surplus of unprocessed garbage
By Rana El-Khatib
Special to The Daily Star
Tuesday, August 02, 2005
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As the old saying goes, "Rome was not built in a day," and neither was Lebanon. Over the years of reconstruction and expansion, the war, the increase in population, and migration in and out of cities, our garbage has grown commensurate to those changes. In fact, our garbage has accumulated so much that our dumps and landfills have reached their brink.
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