Fire fighters have extinguished a fire which broke out at a waste-sorting plant in Pentakomo on Friday morning. Fire service spokesman Andreas...

The ministry of agriculture offered to mediate on Monday in a financial dispute over waste treatment fees pitting the district council of...

Cyprus generated the second most municipal waste per person in the EU  in 2017 at an estimated 637 kg per person, according to Eurostat figures...

Cyprus faces crippling fines for not complying with an EU directive, this time it has failed in its obligation to construct urban wastewater...

Some 650 kilos of waste was collected from the Cyprus coastline and its seabed during the three-month `Zero Waste Beach’ campaign. A total of four...

Authorities are unable to respond when yachts cause pollution in the sea off Limassol because of a lack of coordination and loopholes in the...

THE government is working to stall or avert penalties from the EU over the island’s failure to properly treat urban wastewater, Agriculture...

Waste management, especially municipal waste, which by its nature and quantity has a significant proportion of total production, constitutes a...

The reluctance of the government to deal firmly with, and take no responsibility for, those people in Cyprus who feel they have a right to just...

Ιndonesia is sending dozens of containers of waste back to Western nations after finding it was contaminated with used nappies, plastic and other...

The waste treatment plant at Pentakomo – processing the municipal refuse of the Limassol district – is still resorting to burying the vast...

Cyprus, the island of Aphrodite, as myth has it, is often described as the crown jewel of the Mediterranean, with pristine waters and year-round...

STRIKES have become a regular occurrence at the Larnaca bus company Zenon. Every few months the bus drivers go on strike because the company...

The new unit at Vati waste treatment cannot deal with even half of Limassol’s industrial waste, demonstrators said on Monday during a work...

The establishment of a Green Point network in Cyprus is part of the government’s broader strategy for waste management, agriculture and...

The NGO Let’s Make Cyprus Green is holding two events in Nicosia to raise public awareness about alternatives to plastic as part of efforts to...

Group of 20 environment ministers agreed on Sunday to adopt a new implementation framework for actions to tackle the issue of marine  plastic...

Group of 20 environment ministers agreed on Sunday to adopt a new implementation framework for actions to tackle the issue of marine plastic...

THE EUROPEAN Commission has referred Cyprus to the European Court of Justice over its failure to ensure that all agglomerations with a population...

The European Commission has taken Cyprus to the European Court of Justice for its failure to properly treat urban waste water from agglomerations...