Greece

Over thirteen tons of garbage were collected from Greek beaches and the seabed in 145 separate cleaning operations between September and October 2019, the Hellenic Marine Environment Protection Association (HELMEPA) announced on Thursday. The detritus was collected by a total of...

Tons of garbage have been left uncollected in Athens and other major Greek cities as municipal sanitation workers have joined in a series of strikes protesting a development bill currently debated in parliament. POE-OTA, the Panhellenic Federation of Employees in...

Shocking footage of an illegal garbage dump in the "Metallia" area of ​​Mykonos has cast doubts on the sustainability of trash disposal on this cosmopolitan island just before the holiday season. Mykonos Live TV shared a video of the area...

The discovery on Thursday of a dead infant in a garbage bin in the town of Aigio, in the Peloponnese, has sent shock waves around Greece. The baby's 30-year-old mother is being questioned by police at the nearby Gynecology Clinic...

The authorities on Corfu have started collecting the mounds of trash which have been piling up for weeks on the island after residents near dumping grounds prevented garbage trucks from approaching. So far 500 tons of trash have been collected by the...

Sacks of garbage piled high on the sidewalks of Athens have started spewing out onto the streets after a part of the capital's main dump collapsed and waste trucks stopped collecting. More than 2,500 thousand tons of garbage are being...

Two municipal workers were killed when a garbage truck fell off a cliff in the Greek island of Tinos on Monday. Reports say the vehicle fell from a height of at least 300 feet in the Potamia area of the...

A statement by Tourism Minister Elena Kountoura that it is the government's success that Greeks don't eat out of garbage cans anymore and a claim that new businesses open every day that has created a stir . Speaking on Skai...

After hours of deliberation Greek municipal workers have decided to suspend the strike that has crippled the Greek capital for more than a week. The municipal workers union (POE-OTA) which represents the garbage collectors has decided to end the strike...

While the municipal workers are discussing whether they will continue their strike, the Greek government is seeking a Plan B for dealing with the mounds of garbage piling up in city streets across the country. According to sources within the...

Monday's new meeting between the temporary municipal workers union (POE-OTA) and Greek Minister of the Interior Panos Skourletis ended in a deadlock. As a result, piled-up trash will remain on the streets of Athens and other cities across Greece, with...

The streets of Athens, including major tourist areas, are filled with mounts of garbage as the municipal trash collectors continue their strike that started on Monday. Municipal workers demand the permanent hiring of about 10,000 contract workers whose contracts have...

The island of Zakynthos, western Greece, is drowning in piles of garbage as garbage trucks have stopped collecting them for the past two weeks, after residents of Kalamaki blocked the entrance to the landfill in Skopos. The volumes of rubbish...

The executive committee of the Regional Authority of Attiki solid waste management body, EDSNA, on Friday canceled a decision to transport 4,000 tons of waste from the town of Tripolis in Peloponnese, southern Greece, to the Fyli sanitary landfill in Athens. According...

“This is what Greek universities have come to,” said a student after emptying a garbage bag in the University of Athens Vice Rector’s office. A group of students attempted to visit the office of Rector Theodoros Fortsakis in order to discuss the...