"We all know the problems that exist with rubble that accumulates in various places in the countryside," said the chairman of the committee and MP for the Ecologists, Charalambos Theopeptou, but he also pointed out the problems faced by construction companies, transport companies, earthmoving companies and skip companies.
"There are strong reactions to various provisions of the bill," Theopeptou explained, and said that efforts are being made so that the existing regulation can solve environmental problems, and if necessary, he said, changes can be made to the basic law, so that it better serves the environment and society.
Theopeptou said, construction debris is the second largest type of waste, after household waste, in Cyprus and therefore it is a key issue to regulate its removal.
He explained that because the companies involved in the management of this waste are small, they often seek to find temporary, nearby disposal sites so that they can be transported in bulk to their treatment plants and do not have to make frequent trips there, but also have the possibility of sorting them so that they are not charged more expensively when they are collected as a small load.
With the difficulty in finding such sites, deadlocks are created, to which the discussion that has been developing in the Commission recently is attempting to provide a solution and, as the President of the Commission said, "with the dialogue that we have opened with the debris management companies and the companies that do the transport, we expect to find a solution". "We are taking slow and careful steps to find a way to protect the environment, but also to find a workable way for the sector to continue working without problems," he added."
"I have met with all the companies and suggested that they should work together because the process of getting a permit and finding a piece of land for waste management has some costs that a small company cannot cover on its own. I recommended that they work together depending on the area they are working in and now they have started to organise themselves, so we can now have a dialogue," he concluded.
Source: CNA
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