Recycling

Eight million tonnes of plastic leaks into the oceans and seas per year, resulting in the reduction of at least 600 species, 15% of which are endangered, at a cost of $80 million to European fishermen. However, there is a way out and it can be found in the past, according to the son of the great ocean explorer, Pierre Yves Cousteau.

Shocking photos of the Caribbean Sea littered with rubbish and debris have gone viral on social media.

The photos were taken off the coast of the island Roatan in Honduras, and show a landscape of floating trash where there should be blue seas.

The Seven Star cargo ship was detained on its arrival in Salerno, Italy. The ship, built in 1982, has a Bulgarian flag and its manager / owner according to the Equasis global database, and the Russian Shipping Register is Low Sea Shipping Management Co. headquartered in Varna, the Maritime Newsletter reported, quoted by Mediapool on Sunday.

The Budget and Finance Committee will consider a radical change in the calculation of the waste tax in Bulgaria. The project provides for a "polluter to pay" and this will lead to the lifting of the household fees, reported bTV. 

From January 1 next year Greeks will have to pay 3 cents for lightweight plastic bags such as those currently given away at supermarkets and other stores. The charge will rise to 0.07 euros from January 1, 2019.

Kozani on Friday became the first city in Greece to introduce underground garbage cans in a bid to do away with the unsightly and malodorous wheeled dumpsters that mar the country's urban thoroughfares. The northern Greek city's first batch of underground bins was placed at Bristol Square, with Eleftherias Square slated to come next.

Bulgaria's National Council for Tripartite Cooperation has proposed new options for calculating the garbage fee in Bulgaria.

If the new rules become a reality, municipalities will have to choose between three options for calculating the fee, bTV reported.

The project for dismantling the remains of the 1300 years Bulgaria monument has began. This was reported by the chairman of the town planning commission Silvia Hristova.

The trash mountains blighting the Greek capital comprise something of a pet subject for politicians - one that is never really tackled with any great success. The only thing that is achieved with their prevarications is more tolerance for such phenomena. What can we as citizens do? Take the cleanup into our own hands, as Hollywood star Will Smith's daughter did on the island of Antipaxi?

Anka Mrak-Taritas, the opposition Zagreb mayor candidate, challenges the incumbent Milan Bandic, promising new construction and recycling projects, and reforms of kindergartens, schools and the traffic system.