WASTE MANAGEMENT - GREECE A PROFOUND & GROSS MISTAKE that E.C.(D.G.ENVIR.) continiously '' FAIL'' TO SEE / PETI 0573/2011 GKIKAS - PAPADIGENOPOYLOS

Athens 09/12/2011

TO :                                          

Karen Lone CHIOTI

Parlement Européen

Comité des Pétitions

Rue Wiertz

B 1047 Brussels

 

Dear Mrs Chioti,

Please include the following note (under the above title) in PETI 0573/2011 (20/12/11) .

Taking the Waste Management Installations at Grammatiko as an example to clarify the profoundness of the mistake consider

the following:

1/ the planned Waste Manag. Installations. at Grammatiko is for the population of  N.E. Attica.(according to MIN.ENV. etc. decision)

2/ the population of N.E.Attica is no more than 200.000 people.

3/ 200.000 people produce no more than 100.000 tones of mixed waste per year (eurostat).

4/ The total of installations to deal with mixed (unsorted) waste is for 255.000 tons/year.(127.500 t/y ‘’hygienic’’ burial (150.000 m2) + 127.500 M.B.T.).

5/ From 3/ and 4/ it is already obvious that installation are 2,5 times oversized.
6/ The above conclusion (5/) is a gross underestimation of the ecological crime and economic scandal (concerning every European citizen)

    because it is based on the illegal (see dir.2008/98) assumption that the 100.000 tons/y of waste can be nothing else but totally unsorted
    and that all must go to a Central Installation.

    Which means:  zero application of dir. 2008/98, zero prevention, zero reuse, zero recirculation, zero separation at the source
    and (or) as close as possible to the sources, zero participation of people enterprises, municipalities etc., zero composting in as small as possible scale
    (clean composting), zero application of any of many effective European  practices.
    According to eurostat the mean European percentage of waste that remains in mixed condition and needs some sort of

    a central installation processing is already less than 50%.

    Therefore it is evident that installations in Grammatiko is at least 5 times greater than needed (if needed and if the area offers ecological safe

    conditions for such activities…..the answer in both is no (for the second see the reports attached in PETI 0573 - prof. Kelepertzis-Athens,Univ.,
    prof. S.Rapsomanikis-Thrace University).

    note.

In reality the ‘’oversizing’’  in the case of Grammatiko is abt. 10 times more, (but we leave it for now as this is not so profound)

Concluding here this brief notice , the Waste Management Installations in Grammatiko is at least 5 times greater than needed.

The same situation occurs all over Greece.

Billions of European people money are going to be spend, for no season, causing severe environmental damages.

The above 1/ to 6/ describe the profound mistake that  E.C.(g.d. envir.) consistently failed to understand.

Athens 09/12/2011

D.S.Damaskos

B.Sc.mech.eng

M.Sc.enir.eng

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