Landfills ‘thing of the past,’ says Mitsotakis

Landfills are now "a thing of the past," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has said at the opening of the county's newest waste management facility in the Peloponnese.

The facility at Paleochouni, in Arcadia, has the capacity to treat 105,000 tonnes of waste annually and will serve the regional units of Arcadia, Argolida and Corinthia. It forms part of the wider integrated waste management project in the Peloponnese that includes units in Messinia and Laconia that can manage another 95,000 tonnes per year.

"The wretched landfills, the volumes of garbage that threatened public health and altered the unique nature of this place, are now a thing of the past," Mitsotakis said.

Not only did the new facility relieve the region of an environmental burden, "it relieves taxpayers of burdens of millions of euros resulting from the continuous fines from the European...