Launching the ‘pay as you throw’ scheme at present is unrealistic and the project must be postponed until all necessary research has been carried out – including how the collected waste is to be treated, House president Annita Demetriou said on Wednesday.
All stakeholders must be called together and the programme should be launched gradually, Demetriou said, if the public, and the project’s actual purpose, are to be served.
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