While the parliament was holding its first legislative session in more than a year the You Stink activists were busy dumping garbage since early Thursday in front of several ministries to protest the government’s dysfunction and its inability to resolve the garbage crisis , National News Agency reported.
The You Stink activists dumped garbage near the ministries of Environment, Labor, Energy, Foreign, Culture, Education, Social Affairs, Industry and the Displaced.
Three of the activists were arrested including Tarek al-Mallah, Sukayna Fawwaz and Claude Jaber who was later released, reports said.
A trash crisis that erupted last July following the closure of the Naameh landfill .
A plan that was proposed by Agriculture Minister Akram Shehayyeb and approved by the cabinet in early September to solve the the crisis has run into several obstacles.
Now the government is seriously thinking about exporting the garbage . Syria seems interested
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