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By Aliakbar Gholampour Building materials and construction generate about 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Much of these emissions are due to the environmentally unfriendly process of producing ordinary Portland cement, ...

By Guillermo Martinez and Isabel Infantes The sun beats down on the narrow streets of the Spanish village of Valverde de la Vera, filtered through multi-coloured shades made out of ...

Recycling of household waste could become a legal requirement if a proposal before the House Environment Committee on Wednesday is given the go-ahead. Committee chairman and president of the Greens ...

Cypriots are getting better at managing household waste, particularly when it comes to recycling, but there is room for improvement, waste management company Green Dot said on Monday. The NGO, ...

Limassol, a laggard in recycling, is launching a new campaign to encourage residents to separate and recycle their household waste. Mayor Nicos Nicolaides told a press conference on Tuesday that ...

By Kyriaki Christodoulou Cyprus produced 543,000 tonnes of solid waste in 2020, down 4.9 per cent on the 571,000 the previous year, the Cyprus News Agency’s Kyriaki Christodoulou reported on Friday — World Recycling ...

Items taken to green points which can be reused are available to the public for free, the Limassol waste management council announced on Wednesday. Such items include furniture and other ...

The EU will help finance a waste management project in Cyprus aiming to improve the infrastructure and collection systems for recyclable and biodegradable waste. The green light was given by ...

Paphos municipality and Green Dot Cyprus have partnered up to encourage recycling and provide Paphos town and its suburbs with a ‘door to door’ environmentally clean municipal solid waste management ...

A second water refill station has been installed on the seafront path of Ayios Tychonas in Limassol to promote the use of reusable water bottles and reduce the use of ...

Five everyday items that might not be as environmentally friendly as you think By Prudence Wade Cotton totes might be better than single-use plastic bags – but how many do you ...

The waste collection campaign for electrical and electronic devices in Dherynia will continue until October 7, the municipality announced on Tuesday. Dherynia municipality, in collaboration with WEEE Cyprus organised the campaign ...

Cyprus ranks 23rd among the 27 EU member states as regards the use of recycled materials in their economies. According to Eurostat data on sustainable development goal 12 (SDG12) “Responsible consumption and ...

A recycling programme has yet to be implemented there: it is burying almost all its solid waste Recycling in Paphos is falling dismally short of what is expected in Europe ...

The local charity Cans for Kids on Monday donated an examination couch purchased with the proceeds of metal recycling worth over €2,000 to Makarios children’s hospital in Nicosia. Handing the ...

Coca-Cola HBC Cyprus has coupled its growth to the attainment of strict sustainability targets. A member of the Coca-Cola HBC Group – which for seven consecutive years has been the leading ...

By Emma Batha From surgical masks and gloves to disposable hospital gowns and aprons, the Covid-19 pandemic is creating a mountain of plastic medical waste that is polluting the land ...

Greens are up in arms following an announcement by Paphos municipality that a contract has been signed to create a new cell for storing trash at the Marathounda landfill. The ...

Green Dot’s recycling programme should cover 90 per cent of the population by 2023 the environment service said on Tuesday as it announced that the service will be extended to Voroklini ...

President Nicos Anastasiades and agriculture minister Costas Kadis visited recycling unit Cyprus Environmental Industries on Wednesday in light of the government’s recently announced recovery and resilience plan. The scheme ...

A project in Cyprus aims to reduce and reuse the waste produced by the construction industry – and in the process, help to create safer and better insulated buildings. The method ...

The public absolutely must learn how to recycle, a local environmental NGO said citing a huge increase in disposable waste production during the pandemic. Presenting the data analysis from the ‘...

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 ...

The public has been invited to attend a special event on April 9, the first European Wool Day, to learn about the importance of this valuable resource for a green economy. ...