Corfu Mayor visits Temploni landfill – hoping for the removal of the blockade
Temploni
04 Mar 2018
/ 11:14
CORFU. Mayor Kostas Nikolouzos visited the Temploni landfill today to talk with those blockading the entrance and ask them to help relieve the difficult situation Corfu finds itself in with the roads full of rubbish.
He was accompanied by the Deputy Mayors for Cleansing Services, Spyros Aspiotis, Finances, Giorgos Pantelios, Phaeaces, Nikos Korakianitis and councillor Manos Raptis.
Given the response from the Ministers of the Interior and Environment, which the Mayor has passed on, he has come to Temploni to ask the Action Committee members to remove the blockade from the landfill entrance so that the municipality can implement the road map and take all the necessary actions to manage the island’s waste in accordance with current legislation, putting an end to the rubbish on the streets and to public unrest.
Nikolouzos: If the government doesn't respond, then I'll hand over the keys to them.
Updating them on developments from the meeting at the Ministry of the Interior, Kostas Nikolouzos said, "I put forward some variables. The goverment accepted a responsibility and is obliged to fulfil it completely. That's as far as I can go. After that I'll hand over the keys to them."
The Action Committee members reiterated their demands that the waste bales be removed from the facility. Kostas Nikolouzos stressed that residents should cooperate so that the congestion of waste bales at the landfill can be relieved.
Residents were told that the units would be integrated in order to improve the landfill and that in May there would be a new machine and five refuse trucks would be hired solely for recycling. The studies for Integrated Waste Management will also be updated. The contractor for the biological waste will be appointed and in May also a machine for bio-gas, which is coming from Germany, will be installed. “The prerequisite for all this is that Lefkimmi is operational,” he said. “And for forty years Lefkimmi has been dumping its waste here – they need to show some social solidarity.”
Residents are remaining firm and are concerned about compost management. They asked for the government to give a written commitment that the bales would be removed. To this the mayor replied that it is a given fact that they will be removed as they need to be buried.
If you cheat us again, we're going to have a nasty summer!
He also suggested that the residents should themselves monitor the actions of the local authority in handling the problem.
“Give us two months,” he continued. “This week we will take the decision to prepare the road to Temploni.” To which Alekos Alamanos replied that they didn’t want be cheated again and once more have their patience exploited as it has been all these years by the local authorities. He warned that it will be a “nasty summer”.
Given the response from the Ministers of the Interior and Environment, which the Mayor has passed on, he has come to Temploni to ask the Action Committee members to remove the blockade from the landfill entrance so that the municipality can implement the road map and take all the necessary actions to manage the island’s waste in accordance with current legislation, putting an end to the rubbish on the streets and to public unrest.
Nikolouzos: If the government doesn't respond, then I'll hand over the keys to them.
Updating them on developments from the meeting at the Ministry of the Interior, Kostas Nikolouzos said, "I put forward some variables. The goverment accepted a responsibility and is obliged to fulfil it completely. That's as far as I can go. After that I'll hand over the keys to them."
The Action Committee members reiterated their demands that the waste bales be removed from the facility. Kostas Nikolouzos stressed that residents should cooperate so that the congestion of waste bales at the landfill can be relieved.
Residents were told that the units would be integrated in order to improve the landfill and that in May there would be a new machine and five refuse trucks would be hired solely for recycling. The studies for Integrated Waste Management will also be updated. The contractor for the biological waste will be appointed and in May also a machine for bio-gas, which is coming from Germany, will be installed. “The prerequisite for all this is that Lefkimmi is operational,” he said. “And for forty years Lefkimmi has been dumping its waste here – they need to show some social solidarity.”
Residents are remaining firm and are concerned about compost management. They asked for the government to give a written commitment that the bales would be removed. To this the mayor replied that it is a given fact that they will be removed as they need to be buried.
If you cheat us again, we're going to have a nasty summer!
He also suggested that the residents should themselves monitor the actions of the local authority in handling the problem.
“Give us two months,” he continued. “This week we will take the decision to prepare the road to Temploni.” To which Alekos Alamanos replied that they didn’t want be cheated again and once more have their patience exploited as it has been all these years by the local authorities. He warned that it will be a “nasty summer”.
