New Garbage Bins Around Athens
- by XpatAthens
- Wednesday, 24 February 2021
335 bins with 100L capacity have been placed on 18 main streets and squares across Athens. This is the first phase of an operation aiming to place a total of 2,000 such bins all over the city.
All of this is part of a great effort to improve and modernize the way in which the city of Athens is kept clean. Large cleaning operations are conducted daily by the Municipality of Athens throughout the city, while the supply of new equipment ensures everything that is needed is supplied. In this case, the new garbage bins are grey and metal with a built-in lock to prevent someone from either stealing or destroying them. They are designed in such a way to prevent damage, thus increasing their durability and reducing the cost of constantly buying new bins, a cost incurred by the municipality.
It was so common for citizens and visitors to walk around holding their rubbish because there was a lack of bins! "It sounds kinda funny when you're describing to someone that you had to walk many kilometers to dispose of a piece of paper or a soda can but, unfortunately, that was Athens' reality", the Mayor of Athens, Costas Bakogiannis, stated.
The Municipality of Athens follows the same strategy regarding other areas of daily life, such as recycling. Although citizens were repeatedly encouraged to recycle, there were many times that they saw the municipality's garbage trucks collecting the contents of both the blue and the green bins, not separately as they should. Now, however, with the installation of new green, blue, and brown bins in the capital's neighborhoods, as well as the supply of vehicles that collect waste in the right way, this picture has changed.
XpatAthens extends a warm thank you to This Is Athens and the City Of Athens for sharing news and inspiring stories about how Athens aspires to be a clean, friendly, and welcoming city to live in.
All of this is part of a great effort to improve and modernize the way in which the city of Athens is kept clean. Large cleaning operations are conducted daily by the Municipality of Athens throughout the city, while the supply of new equipment ensures everything that is needed is supplied. In this case, the new garbage bins are grey and metal with a built-in lock to prevent someone from either stealing or destroying them. They are designed in such a way to prevent damage, thus increasing their durability and reducing the cost of constantly buying new bins, a cost incurred by the municipality.
It was so common for citizens and visitors to walk around holding their rubbish because there was a lack of bins! "It sounds kinda funny when you're describing to someone that you had to walk many kilometers to dispose of a piece of paper or a soda can but, unfortunately, that was Athens' reality", the Mayor of Athens, Costas Bakogiannis, stated.
The Municipality of Athens follows the same strategy regarding other areas of daily life, such as recycling. Although citizens were repeatedly encouraged to recycle, there were many times that they saw the municipality's garbage trucks collecting the contents of both the blue and the green bins, not separately as they should. Now, however, with the installation of new green, blue, and brown bins in the capital's neighborhoods, as well as the supply of vehicles that collect waste in the right way, this picture has changed.
XpatAthens extends a warm thank you to This Is Athens and the City Of Athens for sharing news and inspiring stories about how Athens aspires to be a clean, friendly, and welcoming city to live in.
