Landfill

In addition to the deputy mayor, two truck drivers were arrested for dumping garbage in this landfill

Waste management on Corfu is at a dead end again after the tender for the construction of a processing plant and landfill was canceled for a third time. As a result, the three municipalities of the island and neighboring Paxos will continue to send their waste to Ioannina and Vonitsa on the mainland, with the cost of transportation and disposal exceeding €14 million annually.

Waste management has developed differently around Greece. There are parts of the country where big strides have been made, with modern units in operation. Elsewhere, landfills are collapsing into the sea.

The region of Attica is still lagging behind. It is an ongoing risk to the environment, but also a missed opportunity for modern waste management that could yield benefits.

Landfills are now "a thing of the past," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has said at the opening of the county's newest waste management facility in the Peloponnese.

The Xerias River in Pylos, southern Greece, has been turned into a garbage dump. After heavy rainfall, the torrent swelled and swept away part of a landfill, which had been closed since the 1980s. Authorities are now scrambling to find solutions so that the rest of the landfill will not subside further in the next bout of bad weather to hit the area.

Home renovation debris and assorted rubbish including toilet bowls, old sofas and broken TVs are piling up on Mount Aegaleo on the outskirts of Athens, endangering the sparse remaining greenery and also increasing the risk of wildfires.

Volunteer divers from Aegean Rebreath, in cooperation with the Hellenic Center for Marine Research, have discovered waste mounds in the sea off the island of Andros with a perimeter of more than 100 meters. Specifically, the underwater landfill in Andros reaches 15.7 hectares.

As trash and debris have piled up alongside the stream in the western province of İzmir's Menderes district that feeds into the Tahtalı Dam, a significant supply of drinking water for the city has come under an alarming threat.

The dumping of garbage and debris next to Tahtalı Stream, flowing into Tahtalı Dam, which meets İzmir's drinking water needs, has caused an outrage.

Forever chemicals" used in daily items like nonstick pans have long been linked to serious health issues, a result of their toxicity and extreme resistance to being broken down as waste products.

Acrid smoke hung over New Delhi for a second day on Wednesday after a massive landfill caught fire during a scorching heat wave, forcing informal waste workers to endure hazardous conditions.

The landfill in northern Delhi's Bhalswa is taller than a 17-story building and covers an area bigger than 50 football fields.