Trucks sneak in illegal trash

Rubbish from municipalities outside Attica is being illegally dumped at Athens’s only landfill, the city’s Mayor Nikitas Kaklamanis and PASOK MP Andreas Loverdos claimed yesterday. The two men said that garbage trucks have been arriving at the Ano Liosia dump at night and workers at the landfill have been bribed to allow them through. Loverdos said that the mayor had witnessed the practice. The MP claimed that most of the garbage trucks are from municipalities in the prefectures of Corinthia and Achaia. The Ano Liosia dump reached its capacity several weeks ago and some stopgap units have been dug to house Attica’s trash until judges decide whether to allow the construction of up to three new landfills. The mayor of Corinth, Alexandros Pnevmatikos, told Kathimerini that he was confident the trucks that have illegally been dumping rubbish are not from his area.