The Municipalities of Paralimni, Ayia Napa and Sotira are ready to leave the landfill in Kosi and transfer their garbage to the Paphos landfill, without excluding the example of other communities in the province.
According to the mayors of Ayia Napa and Paralimni, Giannis Karousos and Theodoros Pyrillis, if hypothetically the two municipalities started carrying their rubbish to the Paphos landfill today, then in exactly one year Paralimni would have saved at least 400 thousand euros and Ayia Napa at least 350 thousand.
These amounts would be saved regardless of the relatively high cost of fuel that would be incurred by the… phalanx of garbage trucks from Famagusta that would go from Famagusta to Paphos carrying garbage.
According to the study, if the whole of Famagusta province - municipalities and communities - transported its garbage to Paphos for landfill, it could save an amount of one and a half to two million euros per year.
According to the mayor of Paralimni, these data now show in the clearest way the inequality and injustice in which the municipalities and communities of the provinces of Larnaca and Famagusta have been condemned.
The municipalities of the free region of Famagusta are currently required to pay, only for the management of their garbage, about 90 euros per ton, while the corresponding cost for a municipality or community of Greater Nicosia, which transports garbage to Kotsiatis, is five euros. The tuna.
"It is imperative," stressed, the mayor of Paralimni, "the state to proceed quickly and decisively to adopt a national policy for waste management, putting an end to the injustice and inequality that exists the municipalities and communities of the provinces of Larnaca and Famagusta the foundry operated in Kosi ".
Ο Mayor Sotiras George Ttkkas, commenting on the same issue, stressed that the foundry in Kosi and the unbearable, excessive fees it charges, has developed into a growing cancer for the finances of the municipalities and communities of Larnaca and Famagusta provinces.
"We cut from culture, events. "We cut from all the expenses, but also the throats of the municipalities and the communities of these two provinces, every penny saved by the black hole of the management of the" golden garbage "that they loaded on us", said the mayor Sotiras.
Source: Pampos Vassilas / FILELEFTHEROS