Day and night, we use all available means in our effort to make Athens as clean and hygienic as is humanly possible, in the centre and in every neighbourhood, according to the citizens’ demand.
Every day, the City of Athens collects 850 tonnes of rubbish, from 11,500 collection points for recyclable and domestic waste, through 155 collection programmes.
We manage the collection and disposal of waste produced by more than 660,000 residents and almost 5 million tourists each year.
New vehicles and management programmes are added to our fleet, for ever-increasing efficiency!
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- Every day, 35 street-washing vehicles and water trucks work hard in all of the Municipal Districts of Athens.
- In January 2020, we established “Cleaning Sundays”, the largest-scale coordinated cleaning operation to ever take place in Athens. The aim of the programme is to take advantage of the relaxed pace in the city on Sundays and bring forward our own activities. Thus, we spend each Sunday deep-cleaning, disinfecting and washing streets, side-walks, squares and rubbish bins with hot water, as well as all communal areas in a specific part of Athens each time, using the entire fleet of the Directorate of Cleaning Services & Recycling, 20 sweepers, water trucks and street-washing vehicles, and more than 20 cleaning service employees.
- We have inaugurated daily cleaning and rehabilitation services. These are integrated operations that take place in the squares, side-walks and communal areas of all 129 neighbourhoods of Athens. These involve cleaning service employees who use the renewed technical equipment of the Directorate of Cleaning Services & Recycling and perform upgrading operations in the city’s communal areas. More specifically, we use hot water and special cleaning products to wash and disinfect public spaces, we repair, fix and paint planters, benches, light fixtures, walls and cable distribution cabinets. We add rubbish bins where necessary, and remove tags and non-artistic graffiti, thus upgrading squares and public areas and returning them to residents and city visitors in a clean and tidy state.
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- We liberate valuable public spaces that are necessary for the safe transit of our citizens. On a daily basis, the Cleaning Directorate’s specialized crews collect abandoned cars and motorbikes from the city centre and the neighbourhoods, thus liberating side-walks and parking spaces, in an ongoing effort to respect and improve the daily lives of our residents.
- We confront the long-standing problem of poster pollution, with major operations to remove posters and stickers from walls, poles, cable cabinets and other surfaces, using our new, modern washing machinery.
- We have added 5,500 new rubbish bins and 3,000 new recycling bins.
- We have upgraded our cleaning services with 131 new, modern vehicles and the very latest in technical equipment.
- We have extended the bio-waste collection programme to include major producers, bars & restaurants, super markets, hospitals, military facilities and open-air markets, with the procurement of 3,000 bio-waste bins.
- We started the systematic washing of rubbish bins. Every day, after collection, the bins are washed with warm water and a special chemical solution. We wash around 4,200 bins a month, in all neighbourhoods. This means that the mixed rubbish and recycling bins have been washed and disinfected 8 times to date.
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