Filenews 30 January 2021 - by Dora Christodoulou
One records for the third consecutive year first in the promotion of the recycling process within its limits, the other maintains the sad "privilege" of being the only city in Cyprus in which the institution of recycling essentially does not work. Kissonerga and Paphos, respectively, although they are only a few kilometers apart, are "light years" away in the processes and in the consolidation of the philosophy of recycling.
However, this situation is expected to change from this year, as the Municipality of Paphos is making a fresh start on the issue. As it has recently announced, informing its citizens, the Municipality is reintroducing the program of home collection of recyclable items and their management by Green Dot. This development is considered of major importance for environmental policy in the city of Paphos, since unlike the community of Kisonerga which for another year on the basis of official data took the lead in recycling in the province, the Municipality of Paphos remains essentially for years completely inactive in this matter.
This fact is highlighted in statements to "F" by the municipal councillor Mr Loizidis, pointing out that a few years after the differences and tensions that had been created between the Municipality of Paphos and Green Dot for the project, recycling in the city on the substance has never returned, until now when it has been decided to restore the campaign for the home collection of items to be recycled.
"Neither door-to-door recycling nor the operation of material drop points is currently being implemented in Paphos," he stressed. "In addition, the points with the bins that have remained in some areas, in essence now act as hotbeds of pollution, since other waste disposal points are created around them, while unscrupulous citizens throw in the special bins anything but recyclable materials".
Mr Loizidis stressed that a municipal authority and competent agencies and bodies should reposition this issue on a proper basis with the reintroduction of the programme in the near future, since it does not honour Paphos and its representatives the current situation.
