Impatience at progress of waste treatment plant construction

Everyone is tensely waiting for the decision in the upcoming week, concerning the pretrial objections regarding the waste management facility, hoping that the case will be unblocked, in order to avoid inviting tenders again from scratch! If all goes well, the good news is that within three to four years, namely during the current Local Authority's term, Corfu will have the much talked about factory. 

Until then? The answer to this was the main issue at the meeting called by the Regional Authority President with the mayors. 

First and foremost, ensure that any recycling works properly, which today sometimes works, sometimes doesn't, due to the bottleneck at the ΚΔΑΥ facility. The facility at Temploni should have been accepted by the Waste Management Authority (FODSA) since March 2023, which would have triggered both a tender for a new contractor and its modernisation. All of this has been dragging on for at least one and a half years without a solution. Today, after all these miserable scenes with the cardboard boxes and the packages all over the place, the alarm has been sounded even at this late juncture. The FODSA administration must react as soon as possible, during the winter, in order that the new KDAY facility can be ready by the upcoming summer. 

Another unsolved issue since the Nikolouzos years is the management of bio-waste, for which Central Corfu municipality has procured brown refuse trucks and bins, which remain out of service, something that can cause serious problems for the investment. The only solution in order to avoid the aforementioned situation is the construction of a composting unit for bio-waste processing.

This will,, of course, come ahead of the waste management facility, which it will later be a part of, and will mainly contribute to public education regarding recycling, sorting at source and th separation of biowaste from packaging. The unit will be constructed in the area at Temploni which will be freed up once the waste bales have been removed and concerns only a small part, around 3,000 tons, of the waste produced yearly compared to the annual total of 50-60 thousand tons of waste. 

GIORGOS KATSAITIS