At their limits they’re mayors of the nation they usually shout it in each path. Past their disproportionate tasks in relation to their actual capabilities – primarily by way of personnel – they’re confronted with one more problem. To gather from each a part of the municipalities they handle, tons of natural and plant residues that come from the necessary cleanings – primarily based on a brand new legislation – of the non-public plots by their house owners. In a latest extraordinary teleconference of the mayors with the management of the Ministry of Inside Affairs, this drawback was expressed in all tones. Conclusion: With out the required manpower and the required mission equipment with their operators, the stays of the clearings from the plots will merely be scattered in all places. At cityhub, we gave the ground to the mayors, who expressed their very own opinion on the prevailing state of affairs on the burning challenge of the times.
Giorgos Panagopoulos, Mayor of Salamina and President of the Cooperation Community of Municipalities P.E. Islands of Attica
“Our Municipality makes an additional effort to wash the island of the big volumes of branches and grass that come from the cleansing of the plots as a result of laws that obliges the house owners to wash their plots. However the issue is big, since we’re speaking about 10,000 plots of land in Salamina. The Municipality, with its workers (about 60 individuals) and the machines it has along with the gathering of family waste, cleans the forests, forest roads, public areas. It’s unattainable for the Municipalities to have the ability to take away the big volumes of branches and grass from the roads in time. Even supposing, with the assistance of the Piraeus Forestry Division, we’ve ensured that we’ve a spot to deposit the inexperienced waste, the issue stays very severe. The chance of fireside is speedy! Cleared plots usually are not sufficient to forestall fires when all these quantities of branches and dry grass are on the roads. It’s essential to strengthen the work of the Municipalities to have the ability to take away the stays of the cleanings earlier than it’s too late. The Municipalities are struggling by making an additional effort, however they need assistance!”
Isidoros Madis, Mayor of Paiana – President of SPAW
An uncontrollable state of affairs has developed within the municipalities for which they don’t seem to be accountable however far more unable to handle it. The panic that has been precipitated amongst plot house owners ends in the manufacturing of tons of waste which they go away on sidewalks or neighboring areas. They miss the truth that the legislation clearly states that they need to take away them by the identical means. Using a particular bin and their transport is foreseen. In fact we can’t abandon the native communities to the arbitrariness of some, however time is required to normalize the state of affairs and I don’t cover from you that this tactic will ultimately lead us to the imposition of fines. At this time, the shortcoming to handle goes past municipalities and reaches landfills. I attraction to everybody to respect the neighbourhoods, to respect the neighbors and to not act on the expense of society as an entire.
Yiannis P. Zorbas, Mayor of Aegina
“For the final 5 years, the Municipality of Aegina has drawn up and is implementing a Waste Administration Plan with 3 strategic targets, the discount of administration prices, the advance of the Municipality’s companies to residents and the achievement of the nationwide recycling targets. With the undivided assist of the cleansing workers, who usually go above and past, we achieved tangible and measurable ends in all three of our targets. These outcomes are seen from one finish of Aegina to the opposite. The implementation of land clearing laws has created an enormous quantity of pruning that isn’t simply manageable. However, we’ve responded and can reply to each citizen’s request for the gathering of plot cleansing residues.
The implementation of laws by residents is one thing to be optimistic about. Sadly, the identical can’t be stated for the unique design of the legislation, which was clearly poor by way of the eventual administration of the prunings. The Municipality of Aegina makes each effort for the success of the mission, however such actions with a view to obtain their objective, which is none apart from the safety of the atmosphere, the standard of life and the private property of each citizen, require extra cautious planning with the involvement of the entire individuals”
Giorgos Koutouzis, Mayor of Poros
“The Municipality of Poros, with the implementation of the Fireplace Regulation 20/2024, is named, with out prior preparation, like all of the Municipalities of the nation, to shoulder, in the course of the vacationer season, not solely the success of the supply but in addition the burden of eradicating the stays of deforestation and clearing from non-public plots. Within the absence of manpower and gear, in addition to a spot to deposit and shred the dry branches, our Municipality faces a major problem. The waste assortment community is burdened by destiny and in the long run, we’ve to take care of a state of affairs that the extra the deadlines for fines press, the extra it worsens.”
Report from the cityhub insert of TA NEA newspaper
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