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The beach at Zouq Mosbeh, 10 miles (16 km) north of...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eA winter storm has pushed a wave of rubbish onto a Lebanese shore outside Beirut, stirring outrage over a waste management crisis that has choked the country since 2015.\u003cbr/\u003e              The beach at Zouq Mosbeh, 10 miles (16 km) north of the Lebanese capital Beirut, was covered in a mantle of rubbish on Tuesday, after an extended storm battered the Mediterranean country.\u003cbr/\u003e              Lebanon's waste crisis is not new, but now even human rights groups are raising their concern saying Lebanon is breaching international law.\u003cbr/\u003e              The New York-based Human Rights Watch group launched a national campaign against burning waste at over 150 open-air dumps around the country.\u003cbr/\u003e              The group said there are 900 open-air dumpsites across Lebanon.\u003cbr/\u003e              Four main landfills are right on the coast.\u003cbr/\u003e              Not properly built and separated from the water, rough waves make the rubbish spill into the sea.\u003cbr/\u003e              In other cases, waste ends up into the sea on purpose, for reclaiming land.\u003cbr/\u003e              The Burj Hammoud landfill, on the northern edge of the capital, is a huge mountain of waste.\u003cbr/\u003e              It seats by the sea, just next to a small fishermen's port.\u003cbr/\u003e              The landfill reached full capacity a long time ago.\u003cbr/\u003e              In June last year dozens of trucks were moving the rubbish just few hundreds metres away, on land just reclaimed from the sea.\u003cbr/\u003e              Waste ended up into the water as well, Lebanese media reported back then.\u003cbr/\u003e              Civil society groups say the government is using rubbish to fill in land along the coast - a bonanza for politically connected developers who can cash in on the property that's been raised, quite literally, from the sea.\u003cbr/\u003e              Officials say they are doing nothing untoward, and the landfills they operate are done to technical specifications.\u003cbr/\u003e              Lebanon is a signatory state to the Barcelona Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment and the Coastal Region of the Mediterranean, a treaty signed by regional countries to prevent pollution in their common sea.\u003cbr/\u003e              Human Rights Watch says other parties to the convention could act, but the situation is problematic because Lebanon does not release any data on the amount of pollution.\u003cbr/\u003e              It is hard to solve the issue because \"we are at a stage where we don't fully understand the extent of the problem,\" the group's Lebanon Researcher Bassam Khawaja told the Associated Press.\u003cbr/\u003e              The extent of the problem was clear on the Zouq Mosbeh beach on Tuesday.\u003cbr/\u003e              People could even dive into waste.\u003cbr/\u003e              Human Rights Watch says the government violates international human rights law for failing to deal seriously with the pollution: from burning waste and open-air dumping practices.\u003cbr/\u003e            \u003cbr/\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e              Zouq Mosbeh - 22 January 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              1. Pull focus from rubbish to sea\u003cbr/\u003e              2. Beach covered with rubbish brought ashore by the sea\u003cbr/\u003e              3. Various of beach full of rubbish\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              Beirut - 22 January 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              4. Bassam Khawaja, Lebanon Researcher, Human Rights Watch, illustrating HRW report on waste \u003cbr/\u003e              5. Close of Lebanon's map of open-air landfills and dumpsites \u003cbr/\u003e              6. SOUNDBITE (English) Bassam Khawaja, Lebanon Researcher of Human Rights Watch:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Because Lebanon relies on open dumping of waste the garbage is basically going everywhere. Even in the government's plans, they largely consist of coastal landfills, so in Lebanon now there is at least four landfills right on the coast: one in Tripoli, one in Burj Hammoud right outside Beirut, one in Costa Brava just south of Beirut, and one in the southern city of Saida where garbage can easily flow into the sea, especially during storms like this. And so in addition to open dumping and burning (of garbage) taking place across the country, even the government's, you know, emergency solution that have been put in place essentially end up with garbage right on the sea, and in some cases being dumped purposefully into the sea for the propose of land reclamation.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              FILE: Beirut - 22 June 2017\u003cbr/\u003e              7. Close of bulldozer pushing rubbish on top of the Burj Hammoud landfill \u003cbr/\u003e              8. Mountain of rubbish of the Burj Hammoud landfill, trucks moving rubbish driving by the port\u003cbr/\u003e              9. Boats docked in the port \u003cbr/\u003e              10. Various of trucks moving rubbish from the Burj Hammoud landfill \u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              Zouq Mosbeh - 22 January 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              11. Close of waves \u003cbr/\u003e              12. Close of soap bottle on the beach, sea in the background\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              Beirut - 22 Junaury 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              13. SOUNDBITE (English) Bassam Khawaja, Lebanon Researcher of Human Rights Watch:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Lebanon is a signatory to the Barcelona Convention, it is not supposed to be dumping garbage on the sea. And certainly having garbage coming into the sea can be a problem for the broader Mediterranean, but again the problem really here is that there is no good data on what the environmental impact of any of these practices is. Lebanon doesn't release strong numbers about what the impact is on marine life. It doesn't release numbers within the country on what the impact is on the soil, on the food supply, on the air supply, the air that we breath, and so really... there is really need for basic information about what the actual impact of the garbage crisis is. At this point we are not even at a place where we can discuss solutions because we don't fully understand the extent of the problem.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              Zouq Mosbeh - 22 January 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              14. Pan right of the beach covered with rubbish brought by the sea\u003cbr/\u003e              15. Close of plastic rubbish\u003cbr/\u003e              16. Damaged umbrella, beach covered with rubbish\u003cbr/\u003e              17. Tilt down from sign reading: (English) \"Dive center\" to rubbish on the beach\u003cbr/\u003e              18. People walking among the rubbish on the beach \u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              Beirut - 22 January 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              19.  SOUNDBITE (English) Bassam Khawaja, Lebanon Researcher of Human Rights Watch:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"We found that there are 150 open dumps across the country where a dangerous open burning of waste is taking place at least once a week putting the lives and health of nearby residents at risk. We also found that the government's failure to put a stop to this or to inform the residents of the possible dangers actually violated Lebanon's obligations under international human rights law. And so this is not just an environmental issue, it's not just a nuisance, it's actually reached the level of where this is a human rights issue, and where the Lebanese government has legal obligations, legal international law obligations to stop the burning and to stop the open dumping of waste.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              Zouq Mosbeh - 22 January 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              20. Man fishing by the sea, beach covered by rubbish in the foreground\u003cbr/\u003e              21. Pull focus from rubbish to umbrellas\u003cbr/\u003e              22. Beach littered with rubbish\u003cbr/\u003e              23. Close of rubbish\u003cbr/\u003e              24. 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