Climate change is a global phenomenon that requires everyone’s involvement.
Through this website, we present actions, solutions and good practices. Everything we all need to incorporate in our daily lives as citizens and in our agenda as elected officials and scientists in order to achieve the mitigation of the consequences for the planet, the environment and our lives, the protection and survival of the system we live in!This is a collective effort in which we invite you to participate!
The Municipality of Korinthia is aiming high in the coming years, together we can do it!
Introduction to Recycling
Prevention, Reuse, Recycling, Recovery, Rejection.
Change of philosophy
1. We are reviewing our consumption habits in food, clothing and products: I only buy what I need – I don’t waste!
2. Avoid buying and consuming items we don’t really need.
3. We reduce our energy and product consumption needs
4. Reuse old items, find new uses for them or give them to others
5. We repair old items, upgrade them or buy used ones
6. We recycle as many materials that are recycled or composted
7. We throw as few materials as possible in the trash and always in a responsible way!!!
Benefits
With Recycling:
1. We reduce the volume of waste that ends up in landfills, thus extending the life of these valuable infrastructures.
2. By diverting quantities from the landfills, our Municipality has an economic benefit since for each ton of waste sent to landfill it spends the corresponding landfill fees.
3. The City, by reducing landfill fees, has the ability to reduce municipal fees or invest in upgrading the services it provides to citizens
4. We create and maintain new full-time jobs in the collection and sorting of packaging waste locally.
5. We improve the quality of life in our neighbourhoods and enhance the overall environmental awareness and behaviour of all of us
6. We save raw materials and energy by substituting raw materials in industry with secondary materials, so we all together protect the environment and the natural resources of the country and the planet.
Recycling categories
Blue Bins
All PACKAGES, i.e.: aluminium, tinplate, plastic, glass and paper, are included in the BLUE BIN.
Blue Bells
They serve the large producers and the points of professional activities such as entertainment centres, bars, cafeterias, restaurants, hotel complexes etc. where large quantities of products in glass packaging are consumed that would otherwise end up in the common waste.
Lamp Recycling
The Municipality of Corinth has placed 1 Lamp Recycling Bin at the Cleaning & Recycling, Adimantou Street & Sisyphos.
Recycling of electrical and electronic equipment
The Municipality of Corinthia has placed one (1) container for waste electrical and electronic equipment. You can recycle in them: Large & small household appliances, computer and telecommunication equipment. Also recycling is done in electrical and electronic equipment stores
Red bins
The Municipality of Corinth has placed 25 red recycling bins for clothes and shoes throughout the city.
You should NOT throw clothes and
shoes in the blue bin
Battery recycling
Batteries, unlike other recyclable materials, are considered hazardous waste. Battery recycling bins can be found everywhere in the Municipality of Corinth, in schools, pharmacies, supermarket kiosks, etc.
Frying oil
Which oils do I recycle? Any oil we use in our home for cooking and frying. That means seed oils (sunflower oil, corn oil, cottonseed oil, palm oil), olive oil, seed oil etc.
We note that engine oils (mineral lubricants) are recycled by a different process and should not be mixed with oils of vegetable origin.
Reciprocal recycling of packaging
The Municipality of Corinth will soon have 5 recycling bins for paper, plastic, aluminium and glass, with a fee to citizens for each returned package
Composting unit
Organic materials such as fruit and vegetable peelings, eggshells, paper towels, kitchen paper, coffee and filter residues, ash, small prunings, lawn clippings, etc.
Construction and Demolition Waste (CDW)
The Municipality of Korinthia has signed a contract with the Solid Non-Hazardous Waste Recycling Unit (SRWRU) of the company A. Bakloris & A. Pipilos OE at the location of Gka-Athikion, which is contracted with the collective management system SANKE Ltd. We recycle rubble and do not throw it away, because it is a source of raw materials and we protect the environment.
Mobile phone recycling
Mobile phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs) contain a variety of precious metals, copper and plastics
Make sure you don't keep broken mobile phones at home.
Recycle at Cosmote and Germano stores in Corinth
Recycling instructions
USEFUL LINKS
GREEK RECYCLING ORGANISATION
