By Anastasia Korae
The triple planetary crises – climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss – are now widely acknowledged as real and existing threats to human societies.
Current resource consumption levels are unsustainable, as is the amount of waste produced, and relying solely on recycling will fall short in mitigating the escalating plastic production trajectory, projected to triple by 2050.
In Cyprus, the littering phenomenon, the fires in the recycling plants, and the situation at the scandal-ridden waste management plant at Pentakomo (OEDA),
