New campaign to promote composting
A campaign to encourage home composting was launched on Friday by environment commissioner Ioanna Panayiotou in collaboration with the supermarket association and the press and...
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Limassol launches two new environmental projects
Limassol municipality will start two new projects to encourage recycling and composting, the city’s mayor announced on Monday. One of them is a ‘Benefit as...
Cypriots create more waste than most in EU
With 626kg per person per year, Cyprus had the second highest amount of household waste in the EU, a Eurostat report revealed on Tuesday. Denmark...
Richer soil from domestic waste
By Annette Chrysostomou Composting can reduce your garbage by up to 50 per cent and also transforms rotting organic waste into valuable improved soil. So,...
75 per cent of waste still ends up in landfills
Cyprus remains one of the EU countries with the highest amount of municipal waste, and 75 per cent of it ends up in landfills, the...
Law on composting, recycling and separate collection to be passed soon
Cyprus is close to adopting legislation to prevent and reduce organic waste and the environment department is already at an advanced stage of drafting the regulations...
‘Cyprus needs to tackle organic waste’
Mandatory recycling, separation and collection of organic waste needs to be introduced in Cyprus, former Environment Commissioner and lecturer at the Cyprus University of Technology...