Garbage piled up on the streets of the capital [Beirut]...with waste collectors still unable to address the problem due to an ongoing sit-in by activists at the landfill serving Beirut and Mount Lebanon...Sukleen, the private firm responsible for sweeping and cleaning the streets of Beirut and Mount Lebanon, said [in a statement] its work has been hampered...by the sit-in at the Naameh landfill [which is] preventing trucks from emptying garbage... Meanwhile, residents of Naameh and surrounding villages, joined by environmental activists...continued their open sit-in in protest of the overfilled dump...the local community has been complaining for years that it is filled far beyond capacity and poses a health and environmental risk... In its statement Sukleen said the securing of an alternative landfill was the responsibility of the Lebanese state and that the Council for Development and Reconstruction.