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Sidon Dump ..

Posted by N10452

And i thought Bourj Hammoud was the only garbage hill we had … I cant believe this is in Sidon !

Greenpeace at Sidon Dump: Save the Med
Greenpeace activists have led a peaceful protest on the occasion of World Environment Day in front of the sea-side landfill of the southern port city of Sidon.
Thursday’s protest was aimed at reminding Lebanese decision-makers of the plight of the Mediterranean Sea and demanding the establishment of marine reserves and the closure of all coastal dumps.

The non-governmental organization’s representatives organized a sea tour for journalists as activists unfurled banners that said “Marine reserves now,” “Close the dumps,” and “Save the MED” to highlight the dump’s threats to the Lebanese coast.

“The Sidon dump has always been a political playground between different political parties,” said Nisrine al-Helwe, a Greenpeace ocean campaigner. “Immediate action should be taken to stop stockpiling the waste and kickstart a project to deal” with the issue.

The dump is just a few meters away from the tourist sites of Sidon — its crusader sea castle, ancient vaulted souk and Phoenician temple.

The 30-year-old “mountain of filth” has steadily grown over the years, reaching today the height of a four-storey building and a volume of about 600,000 cubic meters.

A combination of strong winds and an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.0 on the Richter scale that hit Lebanon in February sent about 150 tones of rubbish blowing into the sea.


Filed under: Lebanon, News
Posted by N10452 on 06.06.08 @ 10:54 pm |

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13 Comments. Add your own...

  • 1. Mickel | June 7th, 2008 at 2:43 am

    In California, they turn mountains of trash into golf courses.

    Lebanon has a LONG way to go to become a civilized country.

  • 2. bashirist for life | June 7th, 2008 at 4:33 am

    What a shame, very very sad can’t beleive my eyes and can’t beleive the residence are ok with this dump.

  • 3. Mickel | June 7th, 2008 at 5:42 am

    تحقق الأجهزة الأمنية اللبنانية في ما إذا كان رئيس حزب الكتائب اللبنانية أمين الجميل هدفا لمحاولة اغتيال كان يتم التحضير لها يوم أمس الخميس. فقد كشفت مصادر مطلعة على التحقيقات التي تجريها الأجهزة الأمنية اللبنانية لموقع “القوات اللبنانية” أن أحد الأشخاص كان يحاول الوصول الى سطح مبنى السان جورج في سن الفيل، والذي يكشف بشكل كبير على منزل الرئيس الجميل والمداخل المؤدية إليه. إلا أن ملاحظات بعض القاطنين في المبنى وجواره اضطرت الشخص المذكور الى الهرب بواسطة سيارة مرسيدس تبيّن لاحقا أن ملكيتها تعود لأحد الأشخاص من منطقة زغرتا. وقد كشفت التحقيقات أن هذا الشخص كان في حوزته بندقية قناصة روسية الصنع مزودة بمنظار وكاتم للصوت وتستخدم رصاصا من عيار 7.62 ملم. ولا تزال التحقيقات مستمرة لكشف بقية خيوط القضية.

  • 4. Elie.F. | June 7th, 2008 at 8:44 am

    1: Sidon must first get rid of Oussama Sa3d,this will be a good start in reducing the polution,
    2: every single person in Sidon must go to this trash mountain and carry as much garbage as he can and throw it infront of every politician house in Sidon especially BAHIYA (OUSAMAM)HARIRI so she can stop playing on 2 ropes.
    3: is it true what u mentioned about the 150 tons of garbage that fell in the sea|?
    4: just a reminder, Sidon is the city of SA3OODA and Sanioura,but who cares the most important is BEIRUT (moush heik)?

  • 5. Ra'fat | June 7th, 2008 at 1:12 pm

    A country full of garbage, garbage leaders, garbage population, garbage policies, garbage security, garbage future, so it is only fitting for garbage to produce garbage.

  • 6. paul | June 7th, 2008 at 2:01 pm

    libnan ya 2it3it…

  • 7. roch | June 7th, 2008 at 2:24 pm

    what no one seems to accept mentionning is that this garbage is our garbage, it didnt fall from the sky!
    so if its either in bourj hammoud or sidon, we are responsible in solving the problem.

  • 8. TheCourtFool | June 7th, 2008 at 3:43 pm

    It’s good to shed light on this issue. Libnen el Akhdar my ass!

  • 9. cedar-guy | June 7th, 2008 at 4:24 pm

    what do u expect from a city that has Ousama sa3ed as a deputy ?in a few years we can do snowboarding on Saida’s mountain .

  • 10. Arze | June 8th, 2008 at 2:50 am

    I remember when a German Company suggested to pay lebanon 1 billion dollars to take our garbage and recycle it in germany then sell it !

    That day Rafik hariri refused knowing that the government pays around 2 billion dollars to Sukleen to take care of all this shit !

    that was around 5 or 6 years ago !

    Hail to hariri ! and hail to sukleen !They payed us to take our garbage yet we refused ! wou ba3da el 3alam rekde wara hal 3aylet el zefet !

  • 11. fad14 | June 8th, 2008 at 5:45 pm

    Arze = Anze
    That billion $ was paid to get rid of Aoun, that was the garbage they were talking about ya Anze.

    But I still don’t know why he refused.

  • 12. Arze | June 9th, 2008 at 5:09 pm

    I wonder why God allows people like Fad14 to exist …We speak reason and you reply with such garbage?

  • 13. fad14 | June 12th, 2008 at 10:23 pm

    I was referring to Aoun when i said garbage, not you, I hope the word garbage isn’t a personal subject for you.



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