Environmental design

Trabzon, one of the largest provinces in Turkey's Black Sea region, faces a major environmental threat. Up to 80 percent of the city's beaches have been filled with soil. For this process, fertile topsoil has been used.

A 138-year-old ledger belonging to a Greek grocer sheds light on the conditions prevalent at the time in northwestern Turkey.

A kitchen garden can offer you are welcome reprieve from the rising cost of living that stretches your budget to the limit. With a small kitchen garden, you can supply your family's needs for fresh vegetables and save a lot of money that would have otherwise been spent on grocery shopping.

Just a month in, an initiative aimed at reducing consumers' dependence on plastic carrier bags by charging for them appears to be bearing fruit, as some supermarkets have recorded a drop of as much as 50 percent.

US high-tech VMware will rent more than 20,000 square meters in two of the buildings built in the Garitage Park complex. The announced rental area is the biggest office deal on the Bulgarian market.

Buildings will be put into use in mid-2019. VMware will provide more than 1,600 jobs, meeting rooms, leisure facilities, and employee entertainment.

For the first time in Bulgaria, Housing and Commercial Complex has been certified in Bulgaria by BREEAM, the most widely used global standard for sustainable buildings, reports mediapool. 

A coalition of green NGOs has called on the European Commission to intervene in Bulgaria, after the country's ruling party announced a proposal that the environmentalists said would limit access to justice by increasing costs.

Only one in ten Greek shoppers say they will continue to use plastic bags in supermarkets after the introduction of a 3 cent levy as of January 2018, according to a new poll.

According to the survey, conducted by the Research Institute of Retail Consumer Goods (IELKA), two in three consumers are in favor of banning the all-too-familiar polythene bags.

A 53-year-old Bulgarian woman was hit with a fine of 500 euros after she bathed in the waters of the emblematic Roman fountain at Republika Square, reported BGNES.

Two hours earlier at the other famous fountain Trevi 48- year-old Spanish woman also took a dip. She was also forced to pay the fine.

The Greek Tourism Confederation (SETE) is calling for the formation of a special, investment-friendly zoning plan for tourism.