00:01Субтитры создавал DimaTorzok
00:07Small islands, like Tilos, here in Greece, all face the same problem – rubbish.
00:13Shipping it somewhere else is just too expensive.
00:15So 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 – there 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?
01:08Before, we had these big, huge bins, and they were overflowing, people 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.
01:29Every 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, and gives residents a way to track their
01:46own recycling through a mobile app.
01:50In Levadia, the island's main village, small electric vehicles handle collections from the residents as well as hotels, restaurants, and
01:58other 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, is now the center of
02:43circular innovation, where all the island's waste is sorted and processed.
02:48At this point, we're standing up to the valley of Stilu, which has closed, there's no more choice than that.
02:57And it has been created by a new system. A new system of recycling.
03:02It's a river that makes no waste, but it won't be anything.
03:26The waste, arriving from across the island, is sorted by hand into 15 categories.
03:31Plastics, glass, aluminum, batteries, textiles, and more.
03:35It's then compressed and shipped to the mainland.
03:38Not as rubbish, but as valuable raw material for recycling.
03:45A new system of recycling.
03:49It's the most important reason to achieve a program that is to participate in the citizens,
03:59and to be able to separate from before the materials.
04:11The small fraction that cannot be recycled is converted into alternative fuel.
04:18Food scraps and other organic waste are composted into fertilizer.
04:26Here we have the final product, from the composting of organic waste.
04:31These are very helpful for the soil, as well as there are plants that can help
04:38in the development of the plants.
04:42They give them to the residents.
04:48From a landfill to a model of circularity, a transformation recognized by zero waste.
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 Polygrim, a Greek waste management company,
05:07brought its zero waste concept to the island, with backing from the region of South Aegean.
05:14A door-to-door education campaign brought residents on board, one household at a time.
05:20Mayor Maria Kama explains.
05:22Good-to-door education.
05:54Но и о чем с туристами?
05:56С около 500 постоянных жителей,
05:59с экономией обеспечивает сильно на сезонных посетителей.
06:03В только несколько публик-победах
06:05осталось, туристы берут их ровно обратно в их отель.
06:10С чистыми улицами дают это счастливое,
06:13в то же время для этого посетителя из Индии.
06:15Я не получил проблем.
06:18Я просто вставил ее в мою бакпаку,
06:19и это эстетически приятный.
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
06:46their neighbours, has 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.
07:31The Just-Go-Zero Tilos project is ready to grow. Regional authorities are planning to extend the
07:38model so that more small islands across Greece stop burying their waste and start dealing with
07:44and build it properly.
