Waste management

Hundreds of pounds of hazardous waste were discovered a week ago near Lukovit. Municipality officials have detected a truck with a registration in Veliko Tarnovo to dispose of liquids and rubbish of unclear origin. The police and prosecutor's office intervened after a signal.

Bulgaria's Chief Prosecutor Ivan Geshev on January 6 ordered the Interior Minister and the Head of of the State Agency for National Security to conduct joint checks of local waste holders' compliance with the Waste Management Act and the Environmental Protection Act, the Prosecutor's office said in a press release on January 6, BNT reported.

The Ministry of Environment and Urbanization has decided to collect taxes from manufacturers and importers of oil, electronic goods, pharmaceuticals and beverage packaging under the name of "recovery share."

The Ministry of Environment and Water has not received an application for transportation of waste by rail from Italy to Bulgaria. This was stated by the Minister of Environment and Water, Neno Dimov, on December 18 at a hearing at the National Assembly held at the request of the opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), BNT reported.

Attica Regional Governor Giorgos Patoulis on Monday heralded two public-private partnership waste management projects for the port city of Piraeus and central Athens that will be put to tender in the spring.

The main goal of Turkey's Zero Waste regulation is to prevent waste, rather than waste recycling, said an expert on environment.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos vowed on Friday to resolve the waste management problems plaguing the country's Peloponnese region by the end of 2021, taking a swipe at the previous government for failing to effectively deal with the issue.

What happens to a plastic bottle after you throw it into the waste bin? Experts say almost any plastic can be recycled if you do it right.

Nine in 10 Greeks believe that recycling plastic is important to the environment, but only handful are aware of the parameters involved, Greenpeace has found.

The Municipality of Pigadakia in the southern Athenian suburb of Voula is launching a pilot program for Greece's first source-sorting waste management system.

Following an awareness raising campaign carried out over the last few weeks, the program starts on Monday with the municipal authority distributing color-coded bags.