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Surely most of you have seen the shocking increase of garbage piles around your local Sukleen dumpsters (if Sukleen operate in you area). Discussing the politics behind Sukleen's contract with the government won't do any good, so I thought maybe we'd talk about solutions. One in particular that may be temporary but possibly very beneficial, and that I haven't seen being discussed anywhere, is this: http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/3/27/sweden-wants-your-garbage-for-energy.html
Yes, you read it correctly. There are countries, like Sweden and Norway, that are actually looking to buy waste, because they benefit from it through waste-to-energy conversion and recycling, and now they're running out of it.
Sukleen have made a killing through government contracts worth billions of dollars and then simply reselling waste for even more profit, when we could've done the exact same thing without their help and all that money spent. Why don't we consider selling all the mountains of trash to Scandinavia and just abandon Sukleen for now? We don't need them to overfill dumps that were meant to be landfills and create more health and environmental hazards across Lebanon. We don't need the government paying them ridiculous sums of money. Selling waste seems like the single best short-term solution for the crisis until we build facilities dedicated for recycling and waste conversion, which will take time, and the profit made from the selling may help even out the costs. It's far better than building incineration plants, which many people consider to be the best solution for some reason. Right now people have started burning their local Sukleen dumpsters.
What is your take on the current situation? Are you living in an area affected by the garbage fumes emanating from the Naameh dump site? Have you participated in any of the recent sit-ins or demonstrations at the site?
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Surely most of you have seen the shocking increase of garbage piles around your local Sukleen dumpsters (if Sukleen operate in you area). Discussing the politics behind Sukleen's contract with the government won't do any good, so I thought maybe we'd talk about solutions. One in particular that may be temporary but possibly very beneficial, and that I haven't seen being discussed anywhere, is this: http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/3/27/sweden-wants-your-garbage-for-energy.html
Yes, you read it correctly. There are countries, like Sweden and Norway, that are actually looking to buy waste, because they benefit from it through waste-to-energy conversion and recycling, and now they're running out of it.
Sukleen have made a killing through government contracts worth billions of dollars and then simply reselling waste for even more profit, when we could've done the exact same thing without their help and all that money spent. Why don't we consider selling all the mountains of trash to Scandinavia and just abandon Sukleen for now? We don't need them to overfill dumps that were meant to be landfills and create more health and environmental hazards across Lebanon. We don't need the government paying them ridiculous sums of money. Selling waste seems like the single best short-term solution for the crisis until we build facilities dedicated for recycling and waste conversion, which will take time, and the profit made from the selling may help even out the costs. It's far better than building incineration plants, which many people consider to be the best solution for some reason. Right now people have started burning their local Sukleen dumpsters.
What is your take on the current situation? Are you living in an area affected by the garbage fumes emanating from the Naameh dump site? Have you participated in any of the recent sit-ins or demonstrations at the site?
