Greece
Environment
Greece Bans Plastic in Public Sector
Greece will ban plastic in the public sector as of February 1, Natural Environment and Waters Secretary Constantine Aravossis announced.
Environment
Greece Aims to Ban Single-Use Plastics by July 2021
The Greek government is drafting a bill that aims to ban all single-use plastics in the country by July 2021.
The draft law to reduce the impact of certain plastics on the environment, with the incorporation of the relevant EU...
Environment
Highly Toxic Fumes Released Over Athens After Fire in Plastics Factory
Greek firefighters are struggling on Sunday to put out a fire in a plastics recycling factory that broke out the day before in northern Athens releasing dangerous toxic fumes in the atmosphere.
With text messages in mobile phones, the Civil...
Greece
Athens Covered With Thick Black Smoke as Fire Rages at Plastics Factory
A column of thick black smoke has covered Athens as a large fire broke out at a plastics recycling facility on Saturday morning.
The fire broke at a facility in Metamorfosi, near the main Athens to Thessaloniki highway at 7...
Economy
Greece Looks to Ban Plastic Bottles, Bags, Packaging in 2021
Greece will look to end the use of single-use plastics by July 1, 2021, according to Environment and Energy Minister Kostis Hatzidakis.
Hatzidakis made the announcement on Saturday while attending an event announcing the partnership between the Ministry and AC...
Environment
Scientists Use Satellites to Detect Plastic in the Greek Seas
Scientists from Greece and the UK developed a new technique to detect patches of floating plastic in the marine environment using satellites.
Writing in the journal Scientific Reports, the scientists say that the new method to prevent and reverse sea...
Environment
Greeks Turn Their Backs on Plastic Shopping Bags
The use of light plastic bags plunged an amazing 98.6 percent in Greek supermarkets in 2019 compared with 2017, the Research Institute of Retail Consumer Goods (IELKA) said in a report released on Wednesday.
According to the report, Greek households...
Environment
Greece Launches ''Plastic-Free Santorini'' Campaign in Bid to Eliminate Pollution
The Greek Tourism Ministry announced on Monday that it is launching a new public awareness campaign dubbed "Plastic-Free Santorini."
The aim of the ambitious project is to spread a message encouraging a reduction in the use of plastics throughout all...
Environment
Greece Vows to Wage War Against Plastic Pollution
The Greek government announced a campaign on Wednesday to tackle pollution from plastics, and promised to completely ban single-use plastics by June of 2021.
"Thirty-nine tons of plastic waste end up in the sea in Greece (every day) and a...
Art
Greek Teen’s Art Installation Spotlights Our Addiction to Plastic
Young people around the world are joining forces and making an effort to combat the climate crisis and biodiversity loss.
The international movement Fridays for Future climate strikes have inspired students around the globe to protest on behalf of the...
Environment
Greece's Paros Seeks to Become First Plastic-Free Mediterranean Island
The popular Greek island of Paros is on a mission to become the first plastic waste-free island in the Mediterranean, using guidelines from the program called "Clean Blue Alliance." This project is an initiative of "Common Seas," an organization which...
Environment
Leonardo DiCaprio Shares Video of Andros Island Plastics Cleanup
Leonardo DiCaprio was spotted on the Greek island of Paros last week, enjoying all the delights that the idyllic destination has to offer during his summer vacation. But the actor, long known for his environmental activism, took an opportunity...
Environment
Greece's Mayor of Ithaca Bans Plastic Bags, Distributes Free Textile Ones
The Mayoral authorities of the Greek island of Ithaca decided to ban plastic bags recently and they will replace them with fabrice bags, the Mayor said on Wednesday.
The new, environmentally-friendly bags will be distributed to residents free of charge.
Ithaca...
Environment
Greek Innovators Present the Ancient Successor to Plastic Straws
A new idea with an ancient pedigree, dating back thousands of years to prehistoric Mesopotamia, has been repurposed by an enterprising group of volunteers in the northern Greek city of Kilkis as they searched for a way to phase...
Environment
Greek Island Strives to be First to Ban Disposable Plastic (video)
The tiny island of Donousa in the central Aegean Sea is striving to become the first Greek island completely free of disposable plastics by way of a series of awareness-raising actions which begin on Friday.
Under an initiative called "Sea...