It also notes that the new strategy for the management of municipal waste in Cyprus includes an integrated plan for the upgrading of the Integrated Waste Management Facility (IWMF) of Kosice.
In a statement, it is said that AKEL adopts a nihilistic approach and that it would be expected that AKEL, as a parliamentary party, would recognise the series of laws promoted in recent years by the Ministry of Waste Management and approved or pending before the Parliament, which adopt the principles of circular economy, rational waste management, waste sorting at source and will result in the creation of a number of new "green" jobs.
It is added that the Republic of Cyprus, in 2009, under the AKEL government, was condemned by the European Court of Justice for maintaining inappropriate landfills in operation, contrary to European directives.
In the absence of a comprehensive strategy on waste management,[/B] the statement continues, the government of Nicos Anastasiades took over a waste management sector that was lacking in infrastructure, policy measures and vision and it is this government that closed the uncontrolled landfills for which Cyprus was condemned.
Today, through all the prescribed environmental procedures, the state has started the rehabilitation of the landfills, fully removing the inefficiencies inherited from the past, it said.
According to the statement, the Ministry of Agriculture has prepared, with the assistance of the European Commission, the new integrated strategy for the management of municipal waste in Cyprus, which fully meets the objectives set at the level of the European Union and which also concern Cyprus, the Ministry of Agriculture added.
The strategy includes plans and measures through which Cyprus adopts the principles of the circular economy, and includes plans for the construction of new plants for the management of organic waste. Indicatively, it is stated that, within the framework of this strategy, plans and projects for waste management in excess of €70 million have already been budgeted by the Ministry of Agriculture for the next three years.
The strategy, it is added, also includes a comprehensive plan for the upgrading of the Integrated Waste Management Facilities (IWMF) of Kosice. Already, the Ministry is preparing to launch an open tender for the complete upgrading of the Unit and the harmonisation of its operation with the new objectives of the European Union.
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