Kourion / Ipsonas: municipal repair stations (LIFE Zero Waste Cyprus)

A Zero Waste candidate city building places to repair, not replace

Kourion Municipality (formerly Ipsonas, reformed under local government restructuring) is the only Zero Waste Candidate City in Cyprus: and part of its candidacy involves establishing municipal repair stations where residents can bring broken items to be fixed. The programme is part of the LIFE Zero Waste Cyprus project, coordinated by the Department of Environment, covering a range of waste reduction measures across the municipality.

What the repair stations programme includes

• Fixed repair points where trained volunteers or paid repair workers assess and fix household items
• Links to the LIFE Zero Waste Cyprus programme infrastructure: hazardous waste collection points, tool libraries, and repair guides
• Kourion's innovative approach to PAYT (a more digitally advanced system than other municipalities) runs alongside the repair infrastructure

How to engage

• Kourion/Ipsonas residents: find your nearest repair station and bring items that need fixing: contact the municipality for the current list of accepted items and opening times
• Repair volunteers: contact Friends of the Earth Cyprus or the municipality to join the repair volunteer programme
• Other Cypriot municipalities: follow the LIFE Zero Waste Cyprus project outcomes to understand how repair infrastructure can be integrated into a wider zero waste municipality plan

Why it matters

Cyprus's only Zero Waste Candidate City is proving that repair stations belong in municipal infrastructure, not just at volunteer pop-ups. Every item fixed at a council-run station is one fewer purchase and one less bin of residual waste.

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• Lead: Friends of the Earth Cyprus + Kourion Municipality
• LIFE project: Zero Waste Cyprus (Department of Environment of Cyprus)
• Report chapter: ZWE State of Zero Waste Municipalities, 5th edition