October 4, 2026
With winter approaching, MP Ashraf Rifi issued a strong warning about the repercussions of the worsening crisis of waste accumulating in the streets of Tripoli, considering that its drift with rainfall towards the roads and water drains portends a large-scale environmental and health disaster within the city’s neighborhoods.
In a post on the “X” platform, Rifi called for “immediate and exceptional” government and municipal action before it is too late, stressing that Tripoli “did not fail with this government,” and stressing the need not to let the people face the repercussions of this crisis amid the difficult living conditions. Rifi held the Municipality of Tripoli, the Union of Al-Fayhaa Municipalities, and the government, with its various relevant ministries and departments, fully responsible for dealing with the issue, calling for the urgent removal of the accumulated waste and finding a sustainable solution away from the policy of procrastination and exchanging accusations, stressing that the health and safety of the city’s people “cannot be postponed.”
This position comes as the waste crisis in the cities of Al-Fayhaa has entered a critical phase, following the announcement by the Union of Al-Fayhaa Municipalities on September 30 that the current landfill had reached its capacity and was closed without an approved alternative site to receive the waste, which necessitated demands for an urgent executive decision specifying the destination of transportation and the treatment mechanism.
In the same context, the head of the Al-Fayhaa Municipalities Union, Wael Zimrli, confirmed on October 2 that the priority is based on removing waste from the streets and reaching a radical solution, pointing out that the landfill reaching its maximum capacity was known since the beginning of the year, and that a remedial plan was presented during a meeting held in the government palace on July 31. For its part, the Municipality of Tripoli called on the government to provide an immediate alternative to the landfill, refusing to close it before preparing an alternative site that would ensure the continued collection and treatment of waste.
These developments reflect the complexity of the crisis that has gone beyond collecting waste from the streets, collided with the filling of the only landfill, and the delay in implementing the proposed alternatives, in addition to the chronic financial crisis that the Union of Al-Fayhaa Municipalities is suffering from, which places the city before the inevitability of finding a quick interim solution that is parallel to a long-term treatment plan.
