Cleaning

The engine of your car is like its heart, therefore keeping it in good condition is important for your vehicle's health. All parts of your car will get dirty somehow, and the engine is certainly no different. It might appear as though cleaning the engine is a complicated task, with all the parts carefully interlinked, but there is no reason you can't do this yourself at home.

On his first day on the job on Monday, newly elected Athens Mayor Kostas Bakoyannis visited the headquarters of the municipal authority's sanitation department in a bid to underscore his intention to tackle one of the Greek capital's greatest challenges: cleanliness.

The traditional spring cleaning campaign of the Metropolitan Municipality begins on March 20, 2019 and will continue until April 15.

The campaign will take place in two stages:

There will be no increase in garbage tax in the capital in 2019, Doncho Barbalov, Deputy Mayor of Finance and Economic Affairs, announced at a briefing in the Sofia Municipality.

He added that in 2019 there would be a record budget for the cleanliness of the city.

A Turkish man may be jailed for over a year for headbutting his wife during an argument in which he complained his wife was cleaning their home every day. 

Sofia Municipality is working to introduce a "Green Ticket", which is valid in the days of serious pollution of air cleanliness. This is what Yordanka Fandakova, mayor of Sofia, told BNT.

According to her, the biggest problem with air pollution is the heating of solid fuel. The development of the gas transmission and district heating network is the long-term solution.

Cleaning the streets in the centre of Sofia takes place as part of the preparation for the welcoming the delegates for the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the EU. The opening ceremony for the Presidency will be held on 11th of January.

The cleaning aims to reduce the fine dust particles in the air.

Mud and sand were cleaned away from curbs in central Sofia.

The mayor of Paris said March 12 the city would spend 1.5 million euros ($1.6 million) to rid the French capital of rats and install more public ashtrays to clean up the city's streets.

In an interview with Journal du Dimanche weekly, Mayor Anne Hidalgo unveiled a 10-point plan aimed at making cleanliness a "priority," according to AFP. 

Cleaners employed by Athens bus and trolley bus operator OSY were prevented by police from approaching Maximos Mansion, the office of the prime minister, on Thursday.

The cleaning staff held a demonstration in central Athens to protest six months of unpaid wages. 

Turkey-based soap maker Evyap Holding has made plans to transfer its bar soap production facility from Turkey to Malaysia by the end of this year.