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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.
Time-bomb – Al-Joumhouria newspaper
Cartoon depicting a rubbish bag with a lit fuse as a bomb ready to go off.
“The solution lies in sorting rubbish” – Al-Joumhouria
Green bin: “Political waste”; Yellow: “Terrorist waste”; Red: “Sectarian waste”
Ad-Dabbour magazine
Woman: “You didn’t tell me where you live… ”
Man-sized rat: “Under your house, in the trash pile”
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…
… a green refuse sack…
… and a giant nose
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