#waste management

Work has started to remove dangerous chemical waste from the AstraSol factory in Latsia, the environment department confirmed on Monday. The department’s director, Theodoulos Mesimeris, said this was a ...

Cyprus is to impose a “landfill tax” on its local authorities, charging them money to dispose of waste at landfill sites, the environment department said on Friday. Following a study ...

Paphos has signed a contract for the installation and management of additional mobile rubbish compactors to boost sustainable waste management, the municipality announced. The contract was signed on Thursday by ...

After the initial hiccups, the major problems faced by district organisations in their first months since they took over in the summer last year, have boiled down to sewerage, waste ...

A roadmap for the future of the “pay as you throw” scheme, wherein people are forced to pay for special issue rubbish bags to have their rubbish collected, was agreed ...

The “pay as you throw” scheme, wherein people are forced to pay for special issue rubbish bags to have their rubbish collected, will cost each consumer between €150 and €250 per year, ...

Apart from being in the top five producers of household waste per inhabitant in the EU, Cyprus has made a complete mess of treating this waste. Environment commissioner Antonia Theodosiou ...

Cyprus could face massive fines from the EU due to its shortcomings in the area of waste management, the environment commissioner warned on Thursday. Speaking to the public broascaster, Antonia ...

A touted “pay as you throw” waste management programme is close to implementation, perhaps as early as next year, according to Environment Department director Elena Stylianopoulou on Thursday. “Its main ...

The marine environment of Kato Pyrgos Tillyria in the Nicosia district is in immediate danger from organic material being dumped in the sea, Cyprus conservation foundation Terra Cypria and Friends ...

In an ever-changing geopolitical and geoeconomic environment, the challenges are enormous and the ability to adapt and respond immediately is imperative, Finance Minister Makis Keravnos said on Tuesday. Addressing the ...

MPs at the House interior committee decided on Wednesday to reconvene in an extraordinary session on Thursday, supposedly to give local authorities and the interior ministry a day to hash ...

A task force is to be established for carrying out inspections on behalf of the environment department in a stepped-up effort to combat environmental crime, it emerged on Tuesday. The ...

European Commissioner for the Environment, Oceans and Fisheries Virginijus Sinkevičius will hold meetings in Cyprus on Monday to discuss key environmental issues. The commissioner will meet Agriculture Minister Maria ...

By Nicolas Netien Cyprus faces a daunting challenge to meet the European Union’s waste management targets. The island nation sends a whopping 67 per cent of its municipal waste to ...

The waste treatment plant at Pentakomo is back in the news, after the joint venture running the facility has written directly to President Nikos Christodoulides complaining about a total lack ...

Cyprus is one step away from being referred to the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) for non-compliance with EU air pollution laws. Additionally, the commission has also included ...

The problem of a bad smell emanating from the Paphos Sewerage Board (Sapa) wastewater treatment plant in Acheleia has been resolved, according to the town’s mayor Phedonas Phedonos. Phedonos, ...

Environment Commissioner Maria Panayiotou expressed the importance of managing waste and cleanups on Thursday. She was speaking on the eve of the annual cleanup campaign organised by campaign group “Let’...

Four mobile hazardous waste collection units are set to tour the country, with the aim of raising awareness about waste collection. Agriculture minister Petros Xenophontos said the aim of the ...

The House environment committee performed a useful duty in alerting everyone to the ineffectiveness of the waste management policies of the last 20 years. Cyprus will not meet the targets set ...

MPs on Wednesday highlighted the years of blunders over waste management which led to an EU early warning report saying Cyprus would fail to meet targets by 2025. The report issued ...

Cyprus risks missing targets of 55 per cent for recycling municipal waste and recycling 65 per cent of packaging waste by 2025, according to an EU early warning report sent to the government. ...

The state should bear the cost of waste management rather than the public, deputies from the House environment and audit committees concluded on Friday, after a joint visit at the ...