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Plan for a clean capital

27 January 2010 / 15:01:32  GRReporter
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Four eco organizations presented their suggestions for a complete plan for the management of the waste in the Attica region, which will be ecological and in conformity of the nature. The idea is to cut in half the quantity of the garbage, which is currently being taken to the dumping ground at Fili. Parallel to this, raw materials will be saved and toxic waste will not be produced.

The plan is developed in three directions: prevention - repeated usage - recycling and according to its creators it will open 3 790 new working places. As the representatives of Greenpeace, of WWF, of the Eco company or recycling and the Mediterranean – SOS stated on the yesterday press conference, the plan offers to create 13 units for the treatment of biological waste, 25 centers for recycling and the foundation of a National Organization for the alternative usage of packages of other products, announces the “Ethnos” newspaper.

Parallel to this a municipality fee is planned to be imposed under the system “I pay as much as I throw out” and a four years program for the treatment of the biological wastes. According to the organizations this is a suggestion, which could be realized within the next five years and will cost 119 million euro, which is considered to be a rather low budget for such a project.

The necessity to be carried out such a research was urgent. As the organizations point out, out of 2 300 000 tons of waste annually, which is going for recycling, 820 000 tons is of the organic waste, 660 000 tons are packages, 430 000 tons is paper and 90 000 tons is electronic appliances, clothes, furniture and dangerous household machinery.

If the program which the four eco organizations is executed the volume of the garbage is expected to decrease to 1 200 000 tons a year. As a disadvantage for the execution of the program the organizations consider to be the coordination and cooperation between the many different organizations among which the organizations for local self government, the ministries and social services as well as the undertaking of the initiative to convince the citizens to play an active role in the suggested activities.

Tags: NewsSociety waste Attica
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