Γόπα project στην Κω

συλλογής και ανακύκλωσης αποτσίγαρων το οποίο ξεκίνησε τη λειτουργία του τον Αύγουστο του 2019 στο δήμο της Αθήνας. 4,5 τρις "γόπες τσιγάρων" το χρόνο καταλήγουν σε δημόσιους χώρους παγκοσμίως. 22 δις τσιγάρα καταναλώνουμε ετησίως στην Ελλάδα.
Με τη συμμετοχή μας στο δίκτυο "γόπα πρότζεκτ" βοηθάμε να ανακυκλώσουμε όσα περισσότερα αποτσίγαρα γίνεται.
25 "σταχτοδοχεία" έχουν ήδη στηθεί σε κεντρικά σημεία του νησιού μας, στο Τιγκάκι και την Καρδάμαινα και ένα στους Πάλλους στη Νίσυρο.
Τα απορρίμματα στοιβάζονται πίσω από ένα διάφανο μέτωπο σε δύο στήλες, δείχνοντας ποια απάντηση είναι πιο δημοφιλής.
Κάθε σταχτοδοχείο περιέχει και ένα διαφορετικό ερώτημα το οποίο αλλάζει κάθε δεκαπέντε ημέρες.

Στο νησί της Κω έχω καταγράψει μέχρι στιγμής τα εξής "σταχτοδοχεία":
1. Στα ΚΤΕΛ το ερώτημα είναι Τάβλι: Πόρτες ή Πλακωτό (Vision Opticians Chamatzoglou)
Καρπούζι ή Πλιζίνα? (Αιθήρ)
Φωτογραφίες: Sophia Karagianni
Ακολουθεί η μετάφραση του κειμένου στ' αγγλικά:
Gopa Project in Kos
Did you know that cigarette butts — commonly called “gopes” in Greek — can actually be recycled? Well, now you do! The “Gopa Project,” which recently arrived in Kos through the LIONS Club Kos Hippocrates, is an environmental program for the collection and recycling of cigarette butts that first began operating in the Municipality of Athens in August 2019.
Every year, 4.5 trillion cigarette butts end up in public spaces worldwide. In Greece alone, 22 billion cigarettes are consumed annually.
By participating in the “Gopa Project” network, we help recycle as many cigarette butts as possible. Twenty-five special ashtrays have already been installed in central locations around our island, in Tigaki and Kardamaina, as well as one in Pali, on Nisyros.
Each ashtray — yellow or blue, in Greek or English — features a thought-provoking, rhetorical, or locally inspired question. People are encouraged to read the question, extinguish their cigarette, and “vote” with their cigarette butt by recycling it in this way. Of course, this can be done not only by smokers, but by anyone environmentally conscious, such as people collecting cigarette butts from the beach.
The Gopa Project focuses on creating urban ashtrays that both address the lack of public ashtrays in Greek cities and creatively motivate smokers to reduce cigarette litter in public spaces.
The ashtrays work through a voting system. Each one presents a question with two possible answers. Smokers cast their “vote” by placing their cigarette butt in the column corresponding to their chosen answer. Behind a transparent panel, the cigarette butts accumulate in two separate columns, visibly showing which answer is more popular. Each ashtray displays a different question, which changes every fifteen days.
The program aims to raise awareness and educate smokers not to throw cigarette butts into public spaces, but instead to use designated urban equipment. The Gopa Project is an ongoing campaign designed to inform, sensitize, and motivate the public.
So far, on the island of Kos, I have recorded the following ashtrays:
1.At the KTEL bus station
Question: Backgammon: Portes or Plakoto?
2. On Vasileos Pavlou Street
Question: Favorite playwright: Samuel Beckett or Harold Pinter?
3. At Konitsis Square
Question: Favorite composer: Mikis Theodorakis or Manos Hadjidakis?
4. On Hippokratous Street
Question: Favorite tragic hero: Hamlet or Orestes?
5. At Aktaion
Question: Favorite novel: Little Women or Pride and Prejudice?
6. At Eleftherias Square
Question: Favorite music group: The Beatles or The Rolling Stones?
7. At “The Traveler,” in Kos Square
Question: Favorite burger: Hasapaki Burger or Pulled Pork Burger?
8. At the summer cinema Orfeas
Question: Favorite singer: Remos or Argyros?
9. At Kos Aktis
Question: Favorite destination: Ionian Islands or Dodecanese?
10. At the port, next to the “I Love Kos” sign
Question: Does he/she love me or not?
11. In Tigaki, outside King Size
Question: Favorite beach: Tigaki or Mastichari?
12. In Kardamaina
A local moral dilemma:
Summer is unimaginable without: Watermelon or Plizina (=which means watermelon in Kefalos dialect)?
13. Finally, the ashtray at Delfinia, which unfortunately has already suffered vandalism, asks:
Dinner: À la carte or Buffet style?




















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