BEIRUT: On the outskirts of the Lebanese capital, mountains of putrid garbage are rising and tempers are flaring as a months-old rubbish collection crisis shows no signs of being resolved.
Desperate Beirut has taken to dumping its rubbish in huge makeshift piles, with the largest -- in Karantina at the northern entrance of the city -- neighbouring the trendy nightlife areas of Mar Mikhael and Gemmayzeh.
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