Skiathos Zero Waste candidate: plastic prevention and the ERIC project

A tourist island taking on plastic: with EU support

Skiathos, one of the Sporades islands and a major summer tourist destination, is a Zero Waste candidate municipality working with ECOREC on a Plastic Prevention Plan under the EU ERIC (Elevating Reuse In Cities) project. The plan, in development as of 2024: addresses the particular waste challenge of an island that receives hundreds of thousands of tourists each summer, many of them arriving on dayboats, generating concentrated seasonal waste.

What the Skiathos programme covers

• Plastic Prevention Plan being developed with ECOREC and the ERIC project framework
• Collaboration with the municipality on waste stream analysis and reduction targets
• The Zero Waste Rota programme trains dayboat operators to educate tourists on waste disposal at sea and on remote beaches not accessible by road

Why it matters

Greek tourist islands generate disproportionate waste relative to their permanent populations. A working plastic prevention plan in Skiathos would give every other Aegean tourist island a concrete template: and the ERIC project means European funding and methodology back the effort.

How to engage

• If you visit Skiathos, follow guidance on dayboat operators' waste practices and separate waste correctly at island facilities
• Follow ECOREC for the Plastic Prevention Plan's public consultation stages
• Ask your own municipality's environmental office whether ERIC project participation is available

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• National coordinator: ECOREC – Ecological Recycling Society
• ERIC project: Elevating Reuse In Cities
• Report chapter: ZWE State of Zero Waste Municipalities, 5th edition