Anything just so we can. Help the local authorities are absent when it comes to Waste Management and i think we should put it on record that while we were running to clean this part of the beach because we saw the mayor walking in the opposite direction and we asked him to come help and lead by example and he said he was too busy. Three years ago local residents forced the closure of what was then the main local dump garbage was left to mount up in the streets of beirut as Garbage Collection Services was simply suspended it. Heads up the Nature Conservation center at the American University of beirut she says the government lets the crisis happen despite repeated warnings it will happen again because we dont see from the government any plan to implement a sound Waste Management solution so it will happen in some cities but in some other cities where positive change has been already implementing it will not happen. These days Garbage Collection is once again working normally in beirut b
billion u.s. dollars worth of wasted goods a year in. the clothing industry is also environmentally damaging every year over half a million tons of textile microfiber end up in the oceans the equivalent of fifty billion plastic bottles. greenpeace says that between two thousand and two thousand and fourteen worldwide clothing production doubled it s now around one hundred billion items that new clothing in. in germany consumers buy an average of sixty such items annually and wear them just as long as they did fifteen years ago and. spend time on from the german clothing foundation is a patient man and he doesn t mind his job unpacking boxes of discarded clothing and blankets in the city of hempstead but over the past five years he s noticed a change people now throw in all kinds of items that simply don t belong here. and