Who hasn’t heard of the trash crisis in Lebanon?… From protests filling the streets last year, till little actions piling up to achieve big results throughout this year. Many consequences have struck his beautiful country; bad ones of course. Apart from polluting the environment, and harming trees and all sorts of plants, the trash crisis also affects people’s lives everyday. How did that catastrophic crisis change Rony’s way home?
To begin with, let us introduce you to Rony. He is our colleague at “greenarea.info”, and works as a Digital Media Developer in the website. So why are are writing this article about him?… Simply, Rony is one of many Lebanese people literally going through “hell” in their daily lives in Lebanon due to the trash crisis.
He told us: “I used to take a longer way home, just to smell the amazing aromas of trees along the way”, adding “Now this has become impossible. Three days ago, I started smelling bad odours in that road in Dbayeh area”.
Our colleague was referring to Zouk El Khrab road in Dbayeh are in Metn. That place, which seems like a valley, you could reach by car then go up a cliff, used to fill the air with the lovely smell of its trees. Now, all Rony, and other people smell when they pass there, is a foul odor.
The trash crisis in Lebanon is very complicated, not because of the lack of environmental solutions, or environmental experts’ opinions, but because it all relies on quotas. Here is an editorial on that issue by “greenarea.info” Editor in chief Hasan Moukalled.
Is there anything the Lebanese can do apart from protesting against this reality?… Let us just wait and see what fate for this country and its environment the quotas would result in.
