“We will attend today’s meeting with Prime Minister Hassan Diab which will be addressing the issue of expanding the Burj Hammoud landfill", Hankache wrote on Twitter.

"We will totally refuse such decision as the Metn residents will not pay for the failure and the mismanagement of this file once again," he said.

“Stop making people choose between a bad choice like leaving the garbage on the streets and a worse one like expanding landfills,” he added.