The Follies Behind The Ingenius Idea of Burning Trash

In order to empty the garbage containers, Lebanese figured out the best solution: Burn the trash.

Ashen fumes gushed out into the skies like pipeline fires from all corners on Wednesday. If you think garbage stinks wait till you get a whiff of its burning toxins that could prove severely damaging to your health and the environment.

Beirut's fire department has urged citizens, in a released statement, to stop burning garbage.


Up until this moment, the department has received over 170 fire calls, and the civil defense has earnestly expressed its limited capacities to answer to all the registered trash fire cases.

To make matters worse, Ogero announced earlier today 4000 phone lines cuts due to random trash fires that spread to the lines' distiributing units.

The green containers turned pitch black, and why not? Lebanon has been floating in a 3-day environmental catastrophe, and what's to come is feared be a lot worse.