The government’s plans to introduce a new landfill tax have cast a spotlight on Cyprus’ troubled waste management system, with Ecologists Movement MP Charalambos Theopemptou describing the situation as “frustrating” on Thursday.
“If they increase the price per tonne at Koshi, they will need to increase the cost of the pay-as-you-throw system,” Theopemptou told the Cyprus Mail.
Koshi is one of the island’s main waste disposal sites, where rubbish collected
