BEIRUT – Environment Minister Mohammad al-Mashnuq vowed the closure of the controversial Naameh landfill at the beginning of next year.
“Prime Minister Tammam Salam vowed that the issues of the Naameh landfill and the national plan for waste would be among the cabinet’s priorities,” Mashnuq said in a statement on Friday.
“Salam called for the formation of a ministerial committee which [later] convened at the Grand Serail and asserted the closure of the Naameh landfill on January 17, 2015 and the rehabilitation of the landfill after its closure to turn it into a public garden,” he added.
National Struggle Front bloc MP Akram Shehayeb had announced earlier in February that energy production will begin soon in Lebanon’s Naameh landfill.
The issue of the Naameh landfill came to the forefront after trash piled up late January on the streets of Beirut and Mount Lebanon when the Sukleen waste management company stopped its work due to resident complaints about waste being dumped in their area.
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