Hospital waste pilot programme sees improvement for public health
A pilot scheme for the treatment of liquid hospital waste has been completed at the Larnaca hospital, removing huge amounts of pharmaceutical and pathogenic substances...
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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...
Plastic packaging is next
Cyprus is lagging behind and will find it difficult to reach targets The most important step in waste management is reducing waste or as...
Cypriots produce over 600kg each in waste every year
Cyprus in 2020 ranked seventh highest in the EU in terms of the per capita production of municipal solid waste, according to just-released data. The...
Trash talk
Let’s talk about trash because the waste crisis is unfortunately thriving in Cyprus. With this in mind, City Friends Club is launching a new series...
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...
House environment committee to look at cost of municipal waste
The House environment committee on Wednesday said it would look at the costs borne by the public when it comes to municipal waste management by...
If the UN wants to slash plastic waste, it must tackle soaring plastic production – and why we use so much of it
By Sabrina Chakori, Ammar Abdul Aziz, Martin Calisto Friant and Russell Richards You pick up a piece of plastic litter from the beach, and...
Cyprus produced 543,000 tonnes of solid waste in 2020
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...
Paphos last in recycling in Europe as it doubles down on landfill
A recycling programme has yet to be implemented there: it is burying almost all its solid waste Recycling in Paphos is falling dismally short...
