Report: Waste Incinerator Admitted as Industrial Oven, Start Works in a Week
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Education Minister Elias Bou Saab stated on Thursday that preparations to set a waste processing incinerator in the Metn town of Dhour al-Shweir continue and that it will be completed within one week, As Safir daily reported.
“Efforts to prepare an incinerator to process the waste of Dhour al-Shweir and the neighboring towns are ongoing and they will be completed within one week,” said Abou Saad, assuring that the incinerator is environmentally friendly.
“It turned out that a private power generator used to supply power to one neighborhood generates a proportion of contamination ten times more than that caused by an incinerator,” he added.
Abou Saab pointed out that the cost of processing one ton of waste through an incinerator is $60 while the government is currently paying $160 for a ton.
Reports have said that the incinerator has been admitted to Lebanon with papers describing it as an "industrial oven," to avoid any measures against its entry since it did not receive the approval of the Interior and Environment Ministries.
The reports added that the former Minister Fadi Abboud had contributed to facilitate the entry of the incinerators being the former president the Association of Lebanese Industrialists.
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29 October 2015, 11:21
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now that is cool and can only happen in what has apparently became a backward country we call leabnon
29 October 2015, 11:58
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...to avoid any measures against its entry since it did not receive the approval of the Interior and Environment Ministries....
WOW we have a garbage crisis and the environment ministry might make it difficult for the incinerator to come into the country. Like that would be worse than leaving the garbage scattered all over...!!!!
Just to show how all these guys have just politicized this issue when that thought in its self should be ludicrous ... It's garbage Come Come! You thieves!!!
29 October 2015, 12:37
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My god, what about waste to energy or nobody here is alive from the head up. Wake up people, our trash could generate the electricity we need.
29 October 2015, 18:54
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Laughable...a minister who is actually working to circumvent the jurisdiction of other ministries...this is the sad state of affairs in Lebanon nowadays, even admittedly by government officials!!! No wonder this country is the butt of jokes around the world.
30 October 2015, 00:13
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one third of the garbage in the photo is vegetables. Vegetables can be processed into compost. Restaurants and grocery stores should be forced to seperate vegetable left overs and have them collected by farmers who can make compost of them and used as fertilizers. Recyclables such as glass and plastics can also be separated at source and taken to factories for processing. Only 20% (what is left) can be burned in an incinerator)
