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The encouragement of rational organization <strong>and</strong> integrated
waste management, <strong>and</strong>
The drawing up of national waste statistics, in accordance with Regulation
2150/2002/EC, so that with the complete registering of the quantities of waste
the maximization of recovery <strong>and</strong> safe disposal is secured.
(Sifakis A. Haidarlis. M., 2009)
It should be mentioned that all the measures have a target of forming a
suitable for Greece waste management policy. Emphasis to the articles
concerning specific waste fractions is not given by the government until now.
As such, until the replacement of this instrument in 2003, the dominant waste
management approach in Greece was the ‘appropriate disposal site’ approach.
Now, disposal has been downgraded in terms of priority <strong>and</strong> been placed as the
fifth recital, rather than the second, <strong>and</strong> the measures envisaged in the
Directive (i.e. development of clean technologies, product design, recovery <strong>and</strong>
energy) have been upgraded to the first paragraph. Article 4(a) of the Directive
is included in the 2003 Joint Ministerial Decision but it is provided for that the
conditions envisaged in the Directive for recovery <strong>and</strong> disposal are applicable to
waste management in general. (Sifakis A. Haidarlis. M., 2009)
11.3. Waste quantities
According to Greece statistics agency, the latest information about the waste
situation in Greece, refers to 2006 but the existing statistic information is
unfortunately pure because there is no accurate measure for all kind of waste
quantities <strong>and</strong> the way they are treated, maybe because of the fact that MSW
treatment is Greece is pour in addition to other EU countries. Another reason is
the existence of a large number of unauthorized dump sites which makes it
difficult to estimate the actual quantities of MSW.
The only useful data is that of Household waste in Greece, which is steadily
increasing <strong>and</strong> the latest official data for 2006 estimated it at 4,133 thous<strong>and</strong>
tons, whereas today it is estimated to have reached 5 million tons/year.
(Hellenic Statistical Authority., 2009) Of the total waste generated in Greece it
is estimated that some 8.8% is recovered while the remaining 91.2% is deposed
of, legally or illegally. The records on the recovery of waste in Greece are not so
clear so there is little information about the exact quantities of garden waste