Solid Waste Management in

Lebanon An Introduction
Bilal Abu Ghali | Elias Nassif | Roy Sarkis
Outline

Definition and sources of solid waste.

Responsible stakeholders for the solid waste management in Lebanon.

Current practices of solid waste management in Lebanon in general

and Beirut in specific.

Environmental impacts of these practices.

 Material such
Solid wastes are
as household
all the discarded
garbage, food
solid materials
wastes, yard
from municipal,
wastes,
industrial, and
demolition or
agricultural
construction
activities.
debris, etc

What is
Solid
Waste ?
Classification of Solid Waste

Municipal Solid Wastes.

Agricultural Wastes.

Bio-medical Wastes.

Industrial Wastes.

E-wastes.
 E-Waste Bio-Medical Waste

Municipal Waste

Agricultural Waste Industrial Waste

Who is Responsible
Current Situation Waste composition in
Lebanon
Current Situation Daily waste generation
per Mohafaza

It is worth noticing that Beirut and Mount Lebanon alone represent 51% of the generated waste
 Current Situation Beirut and Mount
Lebanon solid waste management
The current situation is still based on the Emergency Plan set in 1997. The
daily solid waste management in Beirut and Mount Lebanon goes theoretically
as follows:

Note that this chart does not account for the openly dumped waste which accounts
for a large percentage of the waste nowadays.
Current Situation

In Summary, the waste is currently distributed as follows:

Solid Waste
Managemen
t

Landfilled Dumped Composted Recycled

48% 29% 15% 8%
Waste Management Hierarchy
Environmental Impacts
Source of impacts Environmental Impacts

Loss of Land Space

Loss of Surrounding Land value

Landfills
Underwater Contamination

Air Pollution
Dumps
Increased Health Bill

Affected Marine Life

Sources