The Attica Regional Authority has announced they will hold a tender in 2020 for the creation of three waste and bio-waste facilities.
In an effort to reduce the volume of trash in Greece’s capital, the authority aim to develop the facilities to be used in 2025.
Regional Governor Giorgos Patoulis presented the new waste management plan for Attica on Thursday, saying that the program will foresee recycling, brown bins for biowaste composting, and new processing facilities which, he said, currently exist “on paper.”
“We will put an end to this disgrace,” he said, adding that the Greek capital is home to “perhaps the largest open landfill in Europe, where 1.6 million tons of waste is buried annually out of the 1.8 million that is generated in Attica.”
Patoulis stressed that 2020 will see Attica focus its attention more closely on recycling. “We are starting this year to implement an aggressive recycling and sorting plan at the source so that we will be able by 2025 to manage our rubbish in a modern way, without burying it,” he said.
