#waste management

The Nicosia local government organisation (EOA) on Friday accused the government of “delays and misguided decisions”, saying they had contributed to Cyprus being referred to the EU’s Court of ...

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A new dispute between local authorities and the government, over waste management, appears to be on the cards. Earlier this week, the president of the municipalities union and Larnaca mayor, ...

€1 million in emergency aid for the cleanup of illegal waste dumping sites was approved by the Council of Ministers on Thursday, the third consecutive year in which such aid has ...

Parliament on Tuesday rejected government legislation introducing a landfill tax on municipal waste, with MPs arguing that households should not bear additional costs before the necessary waste management infrastructure and ...

Cyprus was wrapped over the knuckles by the European Commission yet again on Wednesday for failing to implement EU waste recycling targets, its restrictive energy-installation policies, and its failure to ...

Licensed sewage and septic tank operators from Limassol staged a protest outside the presidential palace on Thursday, urging the government to designate a legal disposal site for wastewater and warning ...

The union of municipalities on Wednesday expressed its concern over the implementation of the landfill tax, citing serious economic and environmental implications and describing it as an “image of a ...

The government’s plans to introduce a new landfill tax have cast a spotlight on Cyprus’ troubled waste management system, with Ecologists Movement MP Charalambos Theopemptou describing the situation as “...

The landfill tax will be reduced from €35 to €10 per tonne and is set to increase by €5 annually starting in 2028, Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou said on Wednesday. “The €5 increase will be ...

Municipalities have voiced their strong opposition to the government’s intention to charge a fee to bury waste, warning that the cost would inevitably be transferred to the public. The ...

The House on Thursday passed a law providing for stiffer fines for fly-tipping, but at the same time MPs cautioned that lax enforcement makes the legislation a dud. The bill ...

Members of the House environment committee sharply criticised the government’s waste management planning on Wednesday. They warned of uncontrolled landfills, dangerous unrecycled materials and systemic gaps in collection systems. ...

The House environment committee in a meeting on Wednesday said it has identified failures in inspections of the appropriate discarding of construction waste materials. The implementation of regulations on their ...

Union of Cyprus municipalities chairman Andreas Vyras on Thursday warned that plans to transfer responsibility for waste management are “completely catastrophic”. In a letter to the House interior committee, he ...

Cyprus has set in motion a complete plan for the reclamation of waste management operations and facilities and is optimistic that an EU fine can be averted, director of the ...

The government lacks the ability to implement plans for environmental protection, House environment committee chairman and Akel MP Nikos Kettiros said after the parliamentary debate on the Green Dot system ...

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 ...