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00:07Small islands like Tilos here in Greece all face the same problem. Rubbish.
00:13Shipping it somewhere else is just too expensive.
00:16So most such islands do what Tilos used to do. Bury everything in a landfill.
00:22Out of sight, out of mind.
00:24But few years ago Tilos decided to stop doing that.
00:27Today, this is officially the first zero-waste island on the planet.
00:37Tilos, an idyllic island in the southeast of the Greek archipelago, draws visitors who value its quiet coastlines.
00:45Like Mavis Williams, who bought a house here seven years ago.
00:49But then she was told something unexpected.
00:52There is no more taking rubbish out to street bins.
00:56From now on, someone would come to collect it at her door.
01:00I remember thinking, goodness, is this really going to work?
01:03Because, you know, we have a village which has got little narrow streets.
01:06How are they going to get up and collect all this waste?
01:09Before, we had these big huge bins and they were overflowing.
01:13People would leave things beside it.
01:15Every resident received special bags to sort recyclables and organic waste at home for the collection teams to pick up.
01:23They're so efficient at collecting everything, you don't feel that you've got waste hanging around at all.
01:28Every waste bag and bin in Tilos carries an individual QR code.
01:33When collectors scan it, they log the weight of each bag on the spot.
01:38The data helps managers run the system more efficiently, flag problems early,
01:43and gives residents a way to track their own recycling through a mobile app.
01:49In Livadia, the island's main village, small electric vehicles handle collections from the residents,
01:56as well as hotels, restaurants and other businesses along the seafront.
02:26Tilos used to send 87% of its waste to land.
02:30That figure is now zero. The island has no landfill at all.
02:36The site that was once a large rubbish heap, with plastic blowing onto nearby beaches,
02:42is now the center of circular innovation, where all the island's waste is sorted and processed.
02:48At this time, we're standing up to the valley of the Stilu, which has closed,
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04:47From a landfill to a model of circularity, a transformation recognized by zero-waste cities, a European certification standard.
04:55It's not the first time Tilos has led the way.
04:58The island switched to renewable electricity years ago.
05:01That instinct or environmental thinking helped when Polygreen, a Greek waste management company, brought its zero-waste concept to the
05:10island, with backing from the region of South Aegean.
05:14A door-to-door education campaign brought residents on board, one household at a time.
05:19Mayor Maria Kamma explains.
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05:54But what about the tourists?
05:56With around 500 permanent residents, the island's economy depends heavily on seasonal visitors.
06:03With only a few public bins remaining, tourists carry their rubbish back to their hotel.
06:10The clean streets seem to make it worthwhile, at least for this visitor from England.
06:16I've not had a problem at all. I just put it in my backpack and it's aesthetically pleasing.
06:22It's just much nicer to look at rather than overflowing dirty bins. And there's no smell either.
06:28The island is not just recycling its waste. It's producing far less of it.
06:34Residents of Tilos now throw away 43% less than before the project began.
06:40Knowing that everything is processed by hand and being able to track their own figures alongside their neighbors
06:47has pushed people to reduce, reuse and recycle rather than simply dispose.
06:54Statsis Kontos is the Secretary General, the Senior Administrative Manager of the Municipality of Tilos.
07:03We have come to a logic that it's not a waste, it's material.
07:08All have a second life and we try to find out what others think a waste is the second life.
07:15It's the best use of them.
07:17It was a cycle, it was a consumption, it was a consumption.
07:23It's a cycle, it's a cycle, it's a cycle of education in the new generation and it's a cycle of
07:28handling things.
07:29We have to see different things.
07:32The Just Go Zero Tilos project is ready to grow.
07:35Regional authorities are planning to extend the model so that more small islands across Greece
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