The Lebanese government decided on Saturday to establish two landfills and reactivate another one temporarily to resolve the country’s 8-month-long trash crisis.

The Lebanese government decided on Saturday to establish two landfills and reactivate another one temporarily to resolve the country’s 8-month-long trash crisis.

Information Minister Ramzi Jreij said two landfills – in Bourj Hammoud and Nahr Ghadir areas in north of Beirut– will be established, and the Naameh landfill will reopen for two months to receive waste that has accumulated in makeshift dumps.

A landfill’s location in the Shouf and Aley areas in Mount Lebanon will be determined later following consultations with the local municipalities, said Jreij in his press briefing.

It also allotted $50 million for development projects in towns that lie near the landfills, Jreij stated.