Paphos Life

In Cyprus in 2020, according to figures by CyStat, the total amount of municipal solid waste produced amounted to 543,000 tons, compared to 571,000 in 2019, recording a decrease of 4.9%.

Of the 462,000 tons managed in 2020, 78.8% was disposed in landfills, 18.3% was recycled, 1.2% was used for compost purposes and 1.7% was used for energy recovery.

According to data from Green Dot, in 2021 12,514 tons of PMD, 9,889 tons of paper and 5,963 tons of glass were recycled, a total of 29,727 tons. In 2020, a total of 27,319 tons of waste were recycled.

In 2020, the average municipal waste generation per capita in the European Union was 505 kg. In Cyprus, the per capita production of municipal waste reached 609 kg, which is one of the highest among EU member states.Denmark has the highest production of municipal waste per capita (845 kg), followed by Luxembourg (790 kg), Malta (643 kg), Germany (632 kg) and Cyprus (609 kg).

trevnhil wrote: ↑Sat Mar 19, 2022 7:16 am Sadly in the west of the island is the Paphos district I see little in the way of separating things out into different bags or boxes or even collecting points.
But as far as I know, every house has a rubbish collection Twice a week. Some houses do have to take rubbish to a communal bin, but again these are emptied twice a week .

mouse wrote: ↑Sat Mar 19, 2022 3:17 pm This reminds me back in the mid 90s our local council dump was sold to a private company , rubbish was put in designated areas and some was recycled . Burnable rubbish was minced into a pulp and fed into furnaces , the furnaces made steam which in turn drove steam turbines which fed electricity into the grid. The furnaces had special chimneys to clean the smoke so it was not polluting, the company were very proud of their achievements and profits too ! All that 25years ago ! Cyprus does that with only 1.7% of its rubbish ! Guess chucking it in a hole in the ground is easier !

WHL wrote: ↑Sat Mar 19, 2022 3:22 pm Isnt burning rubbish, banned in the UK and Europe now?