To make money you need to work hard, win the lottery or stop by Greece and recycle glass, aluminum or plastic bottles. The city of Athens installed quite a few of those huge recycling machines that give back a little something every time someone recycles. The price list in Euros is:
- 1 cent per soda or beer can
- 1 cent per 3 glass bottles
- 1 cent per 3 plastic bottles
When done with recycling, make sure you keep the receipt with the amount of money you earned and remember to use it next time you visit a super market or go for shopping in one of the hundreds shops around Athens. There is always the option to donate the money to The Child’s Smile, a non profit volunteer group working and supporting the rights of children. Either way, you kill two birds with one stone!
These things are monstrous, and are the complete opposite of what recycling is about. They are simply an advert for one particular chain of supermarkets and other business and are an absolute outrage. They create noise pollution by playing pop music to “attract” passers by, consume more energy than they save by being operated by electricity and have lights on all night, are a grotesque eyesore and take up huge amounts of space on what are already highly crowded pavements. Also, the actual “recycling” they achieve is questionable. How can glass be recycled when bottles of different colours are dumped together and then crushed into fragments? Also, there are no facilities for paper recycling. All Greece needs for recycling points is a few large plastic bins, one for paper, one for aluminium, and 2 or three bins for different coloured glass, and with no adverts on them, like they have in countries where they have actually thought about recycling for five minutes. What is so difficult about having something as simple as that, instead of the monstrosities in the picture shown? Stefanos, if you knew anything about recycling and protecting the environment then you would know what an outrage these things are. It’s appalling that the people who are meant to be “environmental activists” in Greece are so ignorant of basic issues they think that these freakish machines are something to be proud of.
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PLEASE bring one of these to THASSOS where it is URGENTLY needed!
Ah, I take it back after reading what Despina Christodoulou said above! Despina, I know you are right!
But the bins should be
GLASS
PLASTICS
PAPER
‘cos all the vegetable and garden waste is usuall dumped in someone elses (or their own if they are considerate) garden.
Can you please tell me if the machines are available for purchase? If so, can we receive any information you have. I would be interested in getting these machines in our area. Please provide me any information you have available. Thank you.
i want to start a recycling bussiness in greece how would i go about doing this any help would be helpful thanks
we are students from romania and we want to see better your drop off center. could you send us some pictures from different angles? the pictures will help us to develop our license paper of our final year at the university. thank you very much
Bravo Despina!
You are apparently one of the few people with brains on this page! I live on Rhodes and absolutely NOTHING is done here to even try to recycle. When I go for shopping in the local supermarket and try to explain to the vegetable lady that I do not want my different vegetables each in a different plastic bag I am looked at as if I am the idiot! It is an absolute outrage what is going on in Greece. On Rhodes alone about 1 million tourists visit every year and absolutely nothing is recycled. I start to be more and more upset about this and I am thinking to start a campaign to at least try and educate Greek children differently. Any ideas you might have are more than welcome!
I have 10 years experience in Recycling and Waste Management and I am shock by the lack of recycling in greece. I am considering setting up a recycling company on Rodos where I have a house and would appreciate any info with regards to the government departments that control the licencing or permiting of such companies.Also is there a grant or incentive schemes for recycling activites.
Hi
Derek im from Kosovo which is not far from greece, i was wondering where can you find the machins in europe to buy because i am thinking of the same plan because in Kosovo there is no recyceling what so ever. if you can wirte back to me i would appreciate it
Sincearly
Adi Halimi
Does anyone have a link to a site that explains exactly what can and can’t be recycled in those big blue bins on the Athens streets? For instance I heard that pizza boxes cannot be recycled because of the oil on them and envelopes cant be recycled because of the gum used to seal the paper. What about the plastic packaging from sliced bread or the plastic from old CDs? Sometimes it seems like those blue bins are filled with just plain old garbage because nobody knows exactly what is recyclable.
I found this: http://www.herrco.gr/default.asp?siteID=1&pageid=12&langid=2 .. seems that just about anything can go in there – sorting is done elsewhere.
Hi! Mr. Kofopoulos where can i find more information about this machines i would like to import them to Latin America.
regards,
Jorge.
where can u actually find these machines to buy?? let me know if anyone knows.
Thanx
Hello,
Where do I purchase this mavchine from is there a distributor in eith Australia or the UK?
Thanks Joey