Tripoli, 9 January, 2013:
Faced with a growing garbage crisis, Prime Minister Ali Zaidan has said that Libya may resort to asking . . .[restrict]foreign companies to tender for the disposing of it.
Rubbish is rising by the mountain load across Libyan towns and cities. Piles of it litter the streets. Rubbish bins are full to overflowing while in some four-lane streets in the capital, the central reservations have become long lines of rubbish bags, left by residents who have nowhere else to put them.
With the job of removing it all overwhelming the small band of garbage disposal colectors, mainly Bangladeshis, rubbish is becoming a political issue. Uncollected rotting rubbish outside people homes affects individuals’ lives far more decisively than questions of security or the economy.
Zeidan has said that the government is urgently studying the issue and that if local companies proved incapable of dealing with it foreign companies will be asked to take over the work.
He also announced that the government is working on improving street lighting. He condemned as despicable thieves who have been stealing electricity poles and underground copper cable and selling them cheaply abroad. He called on people to keep an eye out for such crime. [/restrict]
