Unlike in the United States or many European countries, garbage is not collected from people’s homes. You have to take your garbage to dumpsters, which are located in villages and along roads. In Gavalochori, there are two major places where you can deposit garbage.

You can find this set of garbage bins on the road going to Almyrida (Αλμυρίδα), and this one has green bins for regular trash, a blue bin for recycled cardboard, and a yellow domed bin for recycling glass and plastic (the bottles you put in here should be clean).

Please put the lids on the garbage bins after you deposit your trash. And, yes, trash is a problem in Gavalochori and many other villages in the area, especially in the summer. Gavalochori leaders and residents are working on a number of solutions and hope to solve the problem in the not-too-distant future.