Beirut
It is 5 o’clock in the morning. In the dark, scavengers have finished their work and are leaving the Jdeideh dump east of Beirut. Among those scrambling up the ridges of sand to get out of the dump, some still look 10 years old. Most of them, in any case, do not go beyond the period of adolescence. They are part of this caste of garbage collectors in Lebanon, a veritable army of poverty-stricken people made up of Syrians, Palestinians, Kurds, Bengalis, and of course Lebanese, who are now raiding the country’s garbage cans.
In Jdeideh, several hundred of them spent the whole night, by the light of lanterns, looking for the 1,100 tons of garbage that the residents of the Beirut region throw away every day, and which end up in this coastal dump at an altitude of 170,000 m.2:. “There are more and more of them. It’s big business.”notes Tufik Kazmuz, project manager at Khoury Contracting, the company that manages the site. “The authorities eventually found…
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Source: Le Figaro
I am David Wyatt, a professional writer and journalist for Buna Times. I specialize in the world section of news coverage, where I bring to light stories and issues that affect us globally. As a graduate of Journalism, I have always had the passion to spread knowledge through writing.