Rubbish crisis and its cartoons in Lebanon

Posted by: adonis49 on: August 28, 2015

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 Rubbish crisis and its cartoon in Lebanon

The crisis over Lebanon’s waste collection has been parodied in Lebanese newspapers and on social media. Cartoons, some with a political message, show how the event is being seen by an exasperated population. Here is a selection of some of the treatments.

‘Absence of the state’ – An-Nahar newspaper

The image on the right shows sandbags in 1975, the year that Lebanon’s Civil War broke out. On the left, the same scene, only with rubbish sacks.

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Time-bomb – Al-Joumhouria newspaper

Cartoon depicting a rubbish bag with a lit fuse as a bomb ready to go off.

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“The solution lies in sorting rubbish” – Al-Joumhouria

Green bin: “Political waste”; Yellow: “Terrorist waste”; Red: “Sectarian waste”

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Ad-Dabbour magazine

Woman: “You didn’t tell me where you live… ”

Man-sized rat: “Under your house, in the trash pile”

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Reimagined flag

Twitter users have also used images to react to the crisis, including reversioning the national flag by replacing the traditional cedar tree with a pile of waste…

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… a green refuse sack…

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… and a giant nose

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Lebanon cartoons vent anger at rubbish crisis – BBC News

Lebanese cartoonists and social media users have been parodying the waste collection crisis which has been gripping the country for weeks.

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