An elderly woman taking a recycling bag after workers collected trash from her house on the Aegean Sea island of Tilos. Photos: Thanassis Stavrakis/AP
When deciding where to test green tech, Greek policymakers picked the remotest point on the map: tiny Tilos.
Providing electricity and basic services, and even access by ferry, are all a challenge for this island of just 500 year-round inhabitants. Its most recent problem has been dealing with plastic.
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An elderly woman taking a recycling bag after workers collected trash from her house on the Aegean Sea island of Tilos. Photos: Thanassis Stavrakis/AP
Recycle plant workers separating waste on a sorting bench on the Aegean Sea island of Tilos, southeastern Greece.
The shadows of visitors are seen on the old landfill on the Aegean Sea island of Tilos.
The sun sets behind a wind turbine on Tilos.
Deputy Mayor Spyros Aliferis checking a battery installation on Tilos.
A worker separating waste at a recycling plant built on an old landfill site.
A ferry departing from Livadia port on the Aegean Sea island of Tilos.
Mayor Kamma-Aliferi in front of the island's map as the phrase reads in Greek "The future starts from zero" at a recycling plant built on an old landfill site.
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