Green Dot launches awareness campaign to boost recycling

By Marie Kambas

Green Dot Cyprus launched an awareness campaign on Tuesday to convince Cypriots to recycle more and consume less to lose the unflattering title of being one of the European Union’s top waste producing countries.

Eurostat data says the average Cypriot produces almost 2 kilos of rubbish per day, or 663 kilos per year.

The problem is magnified by the fact that 80 per cent of solid waste is disposed of in unlicensed dumps or landfills, with very little recycling available, Artemis Palaiogianni-Bellou, communications officer for Green Dot Cyprus, said.

The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.