Garbage crisis in Beirut
Garbage continues to pile up in Lebanon’s capital. The crisis began in July when the closure of a landfill caused rubbish to pile up on Beirut’s roadsides, in parking lots and river beds.
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- A traffic sign bends under the weight of garbage pilling up on the side of a road north of the Lebanese capital Beirut, on January 15, 2016. (PATRICK BAZ/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A picture taken on January 19, 2016 shows piles of packed garbage at the port of the Lebanese capital Beirut. (JOSEPH EID/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A picture taken on January 19, 2016 shows piles of packed garbage at the port of the Lebanese capital Beirut. (JOSEPH EID/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A picture taken on January 19, 2016 shows piles of packed garbage at the port of the Lebanese capital Beirut. (JOSEPH EID/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A picture taken on January 19, 2016 shows piles of packed garbage at the port of the Lebanese capital Beirut. (JOSEPH EID/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A picture taken on January 19, 2016 shows piles of packed garbage at the port of the Lebanese capital Beirut. (JOSEPH EID/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A picture taken on January 19, 2016 shows piles of packed garbage at the port of the Lebanese capital Beirut. (JOSEPH EID/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A picture taken on January 19, 2016 shows piles of packed garbage behind a ruin at the port of the Lebanese capital Beirut. (JOSEPH EID/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A picture taken on January 19, 2016 shows piles of packed garbage behind a ruin at the port of the Lebanese capital Beirut.(JOSEPH EID/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A picture taken on January 19, 2016 shows piles of packed garbage behind a ruin at the port of the Lebanese capital Beirut. (JOSEPH EID/AFP/Getty Images)
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- In this Thursday, Dec. 17, 2015 photo, a car passes by a pile of garbage in Karantina, east Beirut, Lebanon. Lebanons trash collection crisis which set off summer protests is entering its sixth month, but you would hardly be able to know it in Beirut. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
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- In this Thursday, Dec. 17, 2015 photo, a Lebanese woman covers her nose from the smell as she passes by a pile of garbage on a street in Beirut, Lebanon. Lebanons trash collection crisis which set off summer protests is entering its sixth month, but you would hardly be able to know it in Beirut. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
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- In this Thursday, Dec. 17, 2015 photo, a Lebanese man covers his nose from the smell as he passes by a pile of garbage on a street in Beirut, Lebanon. Lebanons trash collection crisis which set off summer protests is entering its sixth month, but you would hardly be able to know it in Beirut. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
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- In this Thursday, Dec. 17, 2015 photo, a Lebanese man rides a motorcycle as he passes by a pile of garbage on a street in Beirut, Lebanon. Lebanons trash collection crisis which set off summer protests is entering its sixth month, but you would hardly be able to know it in Beirut. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
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- Rubbish is piles up around a tree at a temporary garbage dump north-east of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, on December 21, 2015. (PATRICK BAZ/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A van drives past piles of wrapped garbage blocking a newly-opened road in the town of Jdeideh northeast of Beirut on January 4, 2016 .(JOSEPH EID/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A stray dog looks for food in a polluted river bed in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, as garbage pills up in the background on January 5, 2016. (PATRICK BAZ/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Youngsters walk past a temporary garbage dump in a suburb of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, on January 8, 2016. (PATRICK BAZ/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Syrian workers employed by local non governmental organisations (NGO) pack garbage near a forest in the town of Ain Saadeh north east of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, on January 8, 2016. (PATRICK BAZ/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Garbage piles up in street in the town Jdeideh north east of the capital Beirut, as the Lebanese flag appears painted on a wall in the background, on January 14, 2016. (PATRICK BAZ/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Garbage piles in an eastern suburb of the Lebanese capital Beirut, on January 14, 2016. (PATRICK BAZ/AFP/Getty Images)
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