Greece’s Tilos island is the island with the greatest recycling rate globally due to a program introduced in December 2021 by a private company.
The program plans to turn Tilos into the first green island globally with zero household trash, which it has already managed to recycle at 86%.
“Tilos has become the island with the greatest rate of recycling globally. This fills us with hope,” Environment & Energy Minister Kostas Skrekas said on Tuesday at an event on the remote SE Aegean island.
Skrekas attended the presentation of the “Just Go Zero” recycling introduced by the Polygreen company.
Recycling in Greece’s Tilos through the “Just Go Zero” program
When “Just Go Zero” was initiated, residents of the sparsely populated island received bags and containers to separate their trash into recyclables, biowaste, and non-recyclables.