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WASTE MANAGEMENT IN GREECE: FACTS AND LEGAL ISSUES
TEI of PIRAEUS (GREECE)
About this paper:
Appears in: INTED2009 Proceedings
Publication year: 2009
Pages: 4754-4760
ISBN: 978-84-612-7578-6
ISSN: 2340-1079
Conference name: 3rd International Technology, Education and Development Conference
Dates: 9-11 March, 2009
Location: Valencia, Spain
Abstract:
There are more than one thousand unauthorized dumping sites in Greece. The absence of organized facilities, the widespread and fierce social opposition to the creation of legally authorized landfill sites, poorly drafted administrative procedures that will more than likely lead to condemnation by the courts, and an imperfect and cumbersome legal framework in relation to waste management all mean this is one of the fields in which the country has one of the poorest records in its environment policy.

A brief but necessary examination of the facts surrounding waste and basic waste management law provision in Greece, with an overview of the transportation of Council Directive 75/442 as amended into national law will be presented. An outline of national approach to recovery mechanisms also will be presented in this paper.