Two thirds of Cyprus will be ‘pay as you throw’ by year’s end
Almost two thirds of the Cyprus will be using the waste management scheme “Pay as you throw” by the end of the year, the environment department announced on Wednesday.
The ...
Price hike fears over ‘pay as you throw’ scheme
The proposed reform on waste management – the “pay as you throw” scheme – is expected to result in an annual increase of approximately €140 per person across Cyprus.
This reform, which is ...
Larnaca municipality to introduce pay as you throw scheme
Larnaca municipality said on Tuesday it will introduce a Pay as You Throw waste management programme.
The announcement came as the municipality, which now encompasses Larnaca, Livadia and Oroklini, signed ...
House Passes ‘pay-as-you-throw’ law
The House on Thursday passed regulations relating to the management of municipal waste, including for the ‘pay-as-you-throw’ scheme.
The pay-as-you-throw scheme, and the related obligations of all municipal authorities, will ...
Aglandjia gets tough on random rubbish throwers
Not all residents following municipality’s pioneering pay-as-you throw scheme
Thousands of residents in Aglandjia are not following the municipality’s pay-as-you-throw system, resulting in dozens of trash bags piling ...
Bill drafted for deposit return on bottles and cans
The government is drafting a bill that would introduce a small deposit return fee to help reduce waste, Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis told the House Environment Committee on Wednesday.
He ...
Aglandjia ‘pay as you throw’ reduces trash by over 1,000 tonnes in five months
Five months after the implementation of the ‘pay as you throw’ waste management system, Aglandjia municipality has reduced its rubbish by 1,396 tonnes, the municipality said on Saturday.
In a written ...
Cyprus prepares for pay-as-you-throw scheme
Waste in Aglandjia has been reduced by 41 per cent with scheme
The nationwide pay-as-you-throw scheme is due to be announced later this month but is already running in Aglandjia municipality, ...
Recycling for dummies, it’s trickier than you think
But as pay-as-you-throw approaches, there’s no avoiding it. We all have to learn
Are you one of the 88 per cent of people in Cyprus who believe it’s a ...
Pay-as-you-throw ‘a motivation to change habits’ president says
President Nicos Anastasiades on Wednesday welcomed the upcoming introduction of a new bill on integrated waste management that includes a universal pay-as-you throw policy.
The bill is set to pass ...
Parliament plans to pass pay-as-you-throw law before elections
Parliament plans to pass a pay as you throw bill for rubbish management before the May 30 elections so that it can be put to force six months later by the ...