The Parliamentary Committee on the Environment is facing huge problems in relation to the green point management program in Cyprus, with its members stating that the policy of managing large household waste has completely failed.
During the briefing of the Parliament on Wednesday on the operation of the green spots, it was again complained that the green spots have been turned into garbage dumps, while the citizens are behaving with "criminal" indifference and inaction.
Six new green spots in the first half of 2020
Although the Green Points Management Program in Cyprus is suffering and has become a "headache", according to members of the Environment Committee, construction was announced today in the first half of 2020 for six new green points.
Three of them will be in the Free District of Famagusta, where no green spot is operating today, the other two will be in the District of Limassol and the other in the District of Nicosia.
"Almost everything went wrong," says G. Perdikis
The MP of the Ecologists 'Movement - Citizens' Cooperation, George Perdikis, said that "almost everything went wrong, as a result of which the Cypriot citizen pays and does not have the basic service of collecting large household waste and pruning".
"I regret to note that we are all responsible for this and the government and the municipalities and the companies and the environmental organizations and ultimately the citizens, who in some cases behave with a huge and criminal indifference and inaction," he said.
As he noted, there are serious problems, due to the number of green spots (out of 67 I became only 27) and due to the method used.
The three green points of Paphos operate without any problems
He noted that of the 27 green spots that exist, three of the Paphos District work without complaints and protests.
He explained that the reason they work so well is because the objects that go there are dumped in the garbage dump illegally, noting that "there is this weakness in Paphos, because a normal space for sanitary waste management has not been created, but a space where waste is dumped." and then cover them with soil ”.
"The green spots only by name," says E. Savva
AKEL MP Evanthia Savva said that "unfortunately since January when we discussed the issue until today, more problems have arisen, which we did not realize".
"Cyprus has become a huge garbage dump. The green dots only by name. They have become green headaches. "Citizens, because of poor management or the closure of some, are throwing rubbish out of the green," he said.
He also commented on the lack of management and recycling infrastructure where waste should be transported after green areas.
In relation to the legal dispute between the Municipality of Aradippou and the company UCC United Cleaning (Cyprus) Ltd, which until recently managed the green spots in the province of Larnaca, the President of Larnaca Waste Management of Famagusta, Evangelos Evangelidis, said the contractor let the green spots turn into rubbish bins.
"As a province, we managed the green spots, we changed the culture in the world, but we were unlucky in the matter of the contractor, because instead of managing the waste, he stored it in the green areas, so today we are in court with the company," he said.
For his part, the General Manager of UCC Cleaning Cyprus, Pavlos Mettis, said that his company had until August 8, 2019 the management of the green spots in the District of Larnaca, noting that the contract was terminated 4 months ago for financial reasons. .
He expressed the view that the green spots will be difficult to operate, because the machines we have been charged with are ancient.