Trade union leaders of municipalities’ workers in Attica insist recycling projects to continue and do not accept the decisions for digging pits in which waste will melt organically passing first through the mechanical processing plant. Currently after the waste in Greece is collected from the bins on the streets it goes straight to the so-called HITA - landfills, where the waste is covered with soil to decompose. Mayors’ proposal is a plant for mechanical processing of waste to be built which, according to sources, reduces its volume by 80%.

The global crisis continues in 2011 despite the apparent end of it. Dramatic developments in the astrological climate are observed neither up, nor down.

The annual profit of inaccurate traders was around 400,000 euros and the price of the device on the black market is between € 1,000 and € 5,000.

Commissioner Joaquin Almunia promised that consumer interests will be protected.