Demonstrators and security forces scuffled outside the environment ministry in Beirut on Thursday after several civil society activists stormed the building to protest the authorities’ failure to resolve the trash crisis.

Demonstrators and security forces scuffled outside the environment ministry in Beirut on Thursday after several civil society activists stormed the building to protest the authorities' failure to resolve the trash crisis, the National News Agency reported.

Anti-riot police pushed back “We Want Accountability” protesters who called for more transparency on a plan to export Lebanon's garbage.

The protest was held after around ten members of the group entered the Azarieh building in downtown Beirut and sat on the floor, clapping and shouting slogans against the authorities for failing to resolve the seven-month waste problem.

The ten protesters were later arrested by police along with one member of the group who was demonstrating outside the building and were taken for questioning.

Prior to that, "We Want Accountability" activists gathered in central Beirut and tried to remove iron barriers and threw eggs toward the Grand Serail.

They asked the security forces to stand aside and that they are not targeted by the eggs.

Last month, the government approved the export of the garbage but the plan drew skepticism. And lately Holland’s Howa BV withdrew its proposal to accept the waste, keeping a single firm, Britain’s Chinook Urban Mining International.

Civil society activists stormed the same ministry in September, asking for the resignation of the minister.

The waste crisis erupted in July when Lebanon's largest landfill in Naameh was shut down.