MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The government is expected to sign preliminary contracts with UK Chinook Urban Mining International and Dutch Howa BV on trash export before the end of the week, according to the Lebanese Al-Akhbar daily. An export plan was approved in December following a meeting of the country's officials with the companies' representatives.
The exporting process is due to start in less than a month, the daily reported, citing ministerial sources.
According to the newspaper, both UK and Dutch firms are expected to provide a $2.5-million guarantee to the Lebanese government before signing the deal.
Lebanon has been engulfed in a waste crisis since July, when the local authorities failed to move huge garbage piles from the city streets after a closure of a landfill that received the trash of Beirut and Mount Lebanon, triggering street protests against the government.
