landfill

Action Committee decides to blockade the overfull unit at Temploni landfill
CORFU. It was decided at a meeting of the Action Committee members late on Thursday night to block access to the overfull unit in Temploni landfill facility.

Municipality suing those responsible for today΄s incidents in Lefkimmi
CORFU. The Municipality of Corfu has lodged a complaint about what happened this morning when work crews from the Power Company (DEDDIE), the Municipality and the Water Company (DEYAK) went to Lefkimmi.

On the alert in Lefkimmi - discreet police presence
LEFKIMMI. Local residents have gathered on the access road to the Lefkimmi landfill facility on stand-by and ΄keeping their powder dry΄. Access has been blocked with lorry tyres.

Don΄t you dare open the road to the landfill in the south!
LEFKIMMI (CORFU). If the town council decides to asphalt the road leading to Lefkimmi landfill, then the Lefkimmi Cultural Society will organize a large demonstration in the area.

Video of landfill from Temploni residents
CORFU. This is a short video that Temploni Cultural Society made.

Team of Regional environmental inspectors visit Temploni landfill
CORFU. Regional Environmental Inspectors visited Temploni landfill on Monday to examine the condition of the facility and how it has been managed by the Cleansing Services.

Temploni ΄Sparmiotissa΄ Society is not going to take any action at the moment
CORFU. Residents visited the landfill.

The trench at Lefkimmi - access to landfill impossible
CORFU. Read what the President of Lefkimmi Cultural Society, Maria Kontomari, has to say.

Trench dug to blockade Lefkimmi landfill
CORFU. ΄Fortifications΄ were created over Easter in Mesorahia blocking the approach to the landfill facility. It is thought that the trench was dug on Good Friday.

Lefkimmi Cultural Society continues to reject landfill
CORFU. The members of Lefkimmi Cultural Society had another meeting to coordinate their activities.

Temploni landfill: Gates open again, allowing refuse trucks to enter
CORFU. Following the written commitments from the Corfu Mayor regarding the road map for waste management, the Action Committee has agreed to a two-month ‘truce’ as was discussed at the meeting on Sunday.

Temploni landfill: Mayor gives written commitments
CORFU. The document that the Temploni Action Committee requested from the Corfu mayor as a prerequisite for the removal of the landfill blockade is now in their hands.

Action Committee meeting this evening to discuss the blockade at Temploni landfill
CORFU. "Give us two months," the Mayor told residents at the end of his meeting with them at Temploni landfill this morning.

Corfu Mayor visits Temploni landfill – hoping for the removal of the blockade
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.

Lefkimmi Residents’ Memo to the Athens meeting about waste management
CORFU. Spiros Kouris and Nina Pandi participated in the meeting chaired by the Minister of Interior, Panos Skourletis, as representatives of the Residents’ ‘Kinisis’ (Movement) against the South Corfu landfill.

Corfu Mayor to visit Temploni landfill today
CORFU. Mayor Kostas Nikolouzos will be visiting the occupied Temploni landfill today at 11:00.

Temploni protestors: “We’re not leaving!”
CORFU. 500 metres from the entrance to Temploni landfill the protestors remain adamant. “We won’t allow the landfill to open unless it’s to remove the waste bales.”

Lefkimmi Cultural Society President: The landfill isn’t going to go into operation
CORFU. Lefkimmi Cultural Society President Maria Kontomari told Enimerosi that the response from the Ministers of the Interior and Environment was to be expected.