Greece’s Garbage Crisis: A Stinky Metaphor in tne TIME by Y.Palaιolοgos

It is like a dark inversion of the tourist images of Greece. Seagulls circle not over the clear blue waters of the Aegean, but a bleak, cratered landscape, swooping down to compete with human scavengers and mangy dogs for spoils in a sea of waste. The landfill in the municipality of Fyli receives the lion’s share of the 6,000 tonnes of garbage produced every day in Attica, the region that is home to the Greek capital Athens and 35% of the country’s entire population.

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