From Athens with Love: trash

Monday, November 14, 2011

Waste of (y)our time

Okay, I admit it. This blogging can be a bit gross, yucky and need some parental advisory because its explicit content.

Anyway, here we go! While strolling on the streets of Athens or walking to the trash bins many times per week, you just can´t go by wondering what on earth people throw away or want to recycle... or can you? ;)

5th place: a teddybear

4th place: a shopping cart

3th place: a part of the restroom

2nd place: a chest x-ray film

1st place: a car

Sunday, October 16, 2011

Talking trash in Athens

Athenian sanitation workers protest together with heavy Autumn rains has led to thousands of tonnes of garbage piling up on the streets to be washed around the stinking city.

After Health and Interior Ministers announced that uncollected garbage is posing a severe public health risk to citizens, workers decided to relieve their 10-day protest.They have promised to collect garbage from the streets close to open-air markets (laiki), schools and hospitals.

Are they talking trash or does the ministries end up using private companies to do the dirty work? But wait, who ends up picking up all of the unused and discard cars around the trash containers?