Recycling

Anka Mrak-Taritas, the opposition Zagreb mayor candidate, challenges the incumbent Milan Bandic, promising new construction and recycling projects, and reforms of kindergartens, schools and the traffic system.

Authorities on the Ionian island of Zakynthos on Thursday pledged to remove an unsightly and smelly trash baler from an illegal landfill that abuts a protected natural park following criticism from environmental groups.

The Education Ministry has launched a campaign to encourage children across the country to return their books to school so they can be recycled or reused.

According to a recent study by the Diofantos Institute for Computer Technology and Press, some 28 million books are distributed every year to middle- and high-school students.

Turkey's Tosyalı Holding has announced that it has established a joint venture with American industrial giant Harsco Corp in metal recycling and slag sales at its steel facilities in the southern province of Osmaniye. 

The Environment Ministry has drafted a plan, to be implemented by local authorities, that aims to boost lagging waste recycling in Greece by creating "green corners and areas" in cities and the countryside.

Packaging, with increasing population and production, has diversified through centuries; but today, it is predominantly plastic. This makes us come face-to-face with a horrible environmental problem. The only solution is recycling. 

A dead infant was found among recyclable materials at a garbage sorting center in Larissa, central Greece, on Monday.

According to local reports the baby - just a few weeks old - was discovered by an employee at the sorting plant.

The infant was transferred to a morgue, where an autopsy will be conducted on Tuesday.

"Greece faces significant difficulties in implementing EU environmental legislation," the European Commission said in its Environmental Implementation Review, published Monday, stressing that waste management remains the biggest problem area.

"Waste not, want not" has never been more true than in the crisis, and clothing and shoes are no exception when it comes to getting as much use as possible out of everything we buy and consume.

A Turkish journalist has begun a research project in which he collects and analyzes different kinds of waste thrown into dumpsters in various parts of Istanbul and İzmir in a bid to ultimately create Turkey's first waste map.