Pledges for six new Attica landfills

As the cleanup of tons of trash from the streets of Athens gathered pace Thursday, Attica Regional Governor Rena Dourou pledged to create six new waste management sites, but provided no details about the timing of the projects nor their planned locations.  

Dourou vowed to create the new sites during a tense session of the regional council as residents of Fyli, where the capital's main landfill is located, were in attendance and demanding answers from Dourou who, prior to her election as governor, had promised to close down the long-saturated landfill.

"We did not come to have a little chat, we came to hear solutions," one angry resident told the council meeting.

Aristides Vroustis, regional councillor and a member of the local government body responsible for waste management (EDSNA), said that mayors should be obliged to boost recycling in order to reduce the...