As part of its social and environmental awareness programs, TEXAN organizes the “1st National School Recycling Championship” under the auspices of the Ministry of Education, Religious Affairs and Sports and the Ministry of Environment and Energy. The initiative aims to raise awareness and encourage the active participation of young people—particularly Gymnasium and Lyceum students—in the recycling process.
The “1st National School Recycling Championship” is open to students from classes of lower and upper secondary schools (Gymnasiums and Lyceums) of the municipalities where Multi-Functional Recycling Centers are in operation.
Read below the terms of the competition.
TERMS OF COMPETITION
LOCATION
In the Multi-purpose Recycling Centers located in Municipalities & Regions of Greece, which are presented below.
Multi-functional Recycling Centers Operation Points
| Address | Opening Hours | Google Map |
|---|---|---|
| Acharnon and Acharneon Ippeon | Monday - Saturday 10:00-16:40 | |
| Ag.Annis & Ellis Lampeti | Monday - Saturday 10:00 - 16:40 | |
| Aristotelous and Dede | Monday - Saturday 10:00 - 16:40 | |
| Athanasiou Bosda & Filadelpheias, Town Hall, Acharnai | Monday - Saturday 10:00 - 16:40 | |
| Dekeleias Avenue, Fitoria stop | Monday - Saturday 10:00 - 16:40 | |
| Eleftheriou Fyta and Ethnikis Antistaseos | Monday - Saturday 10:00 - 16:40 | |
| Karamanli and Tsamali | Monday - Saturday 10:00 - 16:40 | |
| Kymis Avenue and K.Kaxiasvili - Olympic Village, Entry A' | Monday - Saturday 10:00-16:40 | |
| Kymis Avenue and Spyrou Loui, Olympic Village - Entrance Β' | Monday - Saturday 10:00-16:40 | |
| Laikon Agonon Ave. & Philadelphia St. | Μonday - Saturday 10:00-16:40 |
| Address | Opening Hours | Google Map |
|---|---|---|
|
1st Recycling & Environmental Park Town Hall of Ag.Anargyroi, (Dimokratias Avenue 61, Ag. Anargyroi) |
Monday - Friday 09:00-17:00 |
| Address | Opening Hours | Google Map |
|---|---|---|
| Iera Odos, Baroutadiko (opposite EKO gas station) | Μonday - Saturday 10:00 - 16:40 | |
| Kifissos Avenue & Minoos Street (in front of the AB Vassilopoulos super market parking lot) | Μonday - Saturday 10:00-16:40 | |
| Lycabettus & Horizomylon Street (Inside the Parking Area of the Horizomylon Municipal Stadium) | MONDAY-SATURDAY 10:00-16:40 | |
| Mykinon & Thermopylon Street (opposite the 2nd Middle School of Aigaleo) | Μonday - Saturday 10:00-16:40 | |
| Papanikoli & Androutsou Street (inside the parking area of the 7th Kindergarten of Aigaleo) | Μonday - Saturday 10:00-16:40 | |
| Peloponnisou & Souliou Street (opposite the 5th High School of Aigaleo) | Monday - Saturday 10:00-16:40 |
| Address | Opening Hours | Google Map |
|---|---|---|
| Amvrosiou Frantzi, ( 96th Primary School) | Monday - Friday 09:00-17:00 | |
| Athinon Avenue 93 | Monday - Friday 09:00-17:00 | |
| Iera Odos 94 | Monday - Friday 09:00-17:00 | |
| Ilioupoleos and Agylis | Monday - Friday 09:00 - 17:00 | |
| Ioannou Drosopoulou & Fokionos Negri | Monday - Friday 09:00-17:00 | |
| Kanigos Square | Monday - Friday 09:00-17:00 | |
| Klauthmonos Square | Monday - Friday 09:00-17:00 | |
| Larisis Station (Domokou) | Monday - Friday 09:00-17:00 | |
| Megaron The Athens Concert Hall | Monday - Friday 09:00-17:00 | |
| METRO Station KATEXAKI | Monday - Friday 09:00-17:00 | |
| METRO Station Kerameikos, Gazi | Monday - Friday 09:00-17:00 | |
| METRO Station SEPOLIA | Monday - Friday 09:00-17:00 | |
| Mikras Asias & Thivon (Children's Hospital "The Agia Sofia" | Monday - Friday 09:00-17:00 | |
| Mikras Asias 69, Agiou Thoma Square | Monday - Friday 09:00-17:00 | |
| National Archeological Museum - Patision Av. and Tositsa | Monday - Friday 09:00-17:00 | |
| Photovoltaic Recycling Center - Kifisias Avenue & Alexandras Avenue | Monday - Friday 09:00-17:00 | |
| Syntagma Square | Monday - Friday 09:00-17:00 | |
| Βadminton Theater | Monday - Friday 09:00 - 17:00 |
| Address | Opening Hours | Google Map |
|---|---|---|
| Agiou Ionannou Street, Vasiliko | Monday - Saturday 10:00-16:40 | |
| Amfidamantos and Aghion Saranta | Monday - Saturday 10:00-16:40 | |
| Apollonos Street (In front of Kanithos Middle School) | Monday - Saturday 10:00-16:40 | |
| Athinas and Farou Street, Vathy | Monday - Saturday 10:00-16:40 | |
| Drosia Indoor Gymnasium | Monday - Saturday 10:00-16:40 | |
| Megalou Alexandrou and Mariou Doxaki Street | Monday - Saturday 10:00-16:40 | |
| National Reconciliation Street (Kourenti Beach) | Monday - Saturday 10:00-16:40 | |
| Park Eleftherias | Monday - Saturday 10:00-16:40 | |
| Park Vourkou | Monday - Saturday 10:00-16:40 | |
| Parking P.E. Chalkida, Haina Avenue | Monday - Saturday 10:00-16:40 | |
| Port of Nea Artaki | Monday - Saturday 10:00-16:40 | |
| School parking area at the corner of Proastiou and Konstantinoupoleos Streets | Μonday - Saturday 10:00-16:40 |
| Address | Opening Hours | Google Map |
|---|---|---|
| Closed Gym of Galatsi, Veikou Avenue | Monday - Saturday 10:00-16:40 | |
| Evros Street, Paradisia Square | Monday - Saturday 10:00 - 16:40 | |
| Hill of the Child | Monday - Saturday 10:00-16:40 |
| Address | Opening Hours | Google Map |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Moraitini Street & Ioannou Fix Street (Inclusive Playground for Children with Disabilities) | Μonday - Saturday 10:00-16:40 | |
| Dimokratias and Litous Street | Μonday-Saturday 10:00-16:40 | |
| Irakleous 6 (5th Primary School of Faliro) | Monday - Saturday 10:00-16:40 | |
| Kountouriotou Street & Ipirou Street (Bailey Bridge) | Μonday - Saturday 10:00-16:40 | |
| Pamfillias & Verra (Located in the parking area of the 3rd Secondary School of Palaio Faliro) | Monday - Saturday 10:00-16:40 | |
| Poseidonos Avenue & Kronou Street (inside Flisvos Park). | Μonday - Saturday 10:00-16:40 |
| Address | Opening Hours | Google Map |
|---|---|---|
| Peace and Friendship Stadium Ticket Offices | Monday - Saturday 10:00 - 16:40 | |
| 34ou Syntagmatos Pezikou & Evaggelistrias Street | Monday - Saturday 10:00-16:40 | |
| Agioi Anargyroi Square (Kokkinia) | Monday - Saturday 10:00-16:40 | |
| Agiou Dimitriou and Salaminos 37 | Monday - Saturday 10:00-16:40 | |
| Akti Moutsopoulou 62-64, Marina Zeas | Monday - Saturday 10:00-16:40 | |
| Akti Moutsopoulou 64-70 (Akti Freatidas) | Δευτέρα - Σάββατο 10:00-16:40 | |
| Alexandrou Papanastasiou and Epidavrou Avenue | Monday - Saturday 10:00-16:40 | |
| Alexandrou Papanastasiou Avenue & Tzavella | Monday - Saturday 10:00-16:40 | |
| Chanion 17 Street | Monday - Saturday 10:00-16:40 | |
| Deligiorgi & Tsamadou (parking area of the University of Piraeus) | Μonday - Saturday 10:00-16:40 | |
| Dilaveri Coast (Galini / Delfinario) | Monday - Saturday 10:00-16:40 | |
| Dodekanisou 7 and Ermoupoleos, Kaminia | Monday - Saturday 10:00-16:40 | |
| Ethnarxou Makariou & Zervou | Monday - Saturday 10:00-16:40 | |
| Etoloakarnanias and Granikou Street (Smyrlis Park) | Monday - Saturday 10:00-16:40 | |
| Falirou & Moutsopoulou | Monday - Saturday 10:00-16:40 | |
| Grigoriou Lampraki Avenue & Akti Moutsopoulou (Photovoltaic Recycling Center) | Monday - Saturday 10:00-16:40 | |
| Holy Church of Agia Sotira | Monday - Saturday 10:00-16:40 | |
| Iasonos & Theotoki Street, Pigada Square | Monday - Saturday 10:00-16:40 | |
| Iroon Politechniou Avenue & 2as Merarchias | Monday - Saturday 10:00-16:40 | |
| Karaiskaki Square | Monday - Saturday 10:00-16:40 | |
| Kleisovis & Chatzikyriakou Street | Monday - Saturday 10:00-16:40 | |
| Korai Square | Monday - Saturday 10:00-16:40 | |
| Lampelet & Chiou 81 | Monday - Saturday 10:00-16:40 | |
| Mantinias and Thiras Street (Kostarakos Park) | Monday - Saturday 10:00-16:40 | |
| Marias Mitilinaiou (Votsalakia Beach) | Monday - Saturday 10:00-16:40 | |
| Moutsopoulou 27 and Imittou Street | Monday - Saturday 10:00-16:40 | |
| Themistocleous Square, Tinianos Garden | Monday- Saturday 10:00-16:40 | |
| Themistokli Square, Petrompei Mavromichali and Spartis | Monday - Saturday 10:00-16:40 | |
| Thiras and Zavogianni Street | Monday - Saturday 10:00-16:40 | |
| Thivon Street (Dilaveri Park) | Monday - Saturday 10:00-16:40 |
| Address | Opening Hours | Google Map |
|---|---|---|
| Aisopou 40-42 | Monday - Friday 09:00-17:00 | |
| Alexandrou Papanastasiou (entrance of Neas Elvetias Park) | Monday - Friday 09:00-17:00 | |
| Alexandrou Spanou and Grigoriou Stefanou | Monday - Friday 09:00-17:00 | |
| Alismoniton Patridon & Efstathiou Strougiannaki | Monday - Friday 09:00-17:00 | |
| Filikis Etaireias and Eleftherias | Monday - Friday 09:00-17:00 | |
| Georgiou Papandreou and Maria Callas Park | Monday - Friday 09:00-17:00 | |
| Georgiou Theotoka 7 | Monday - Friday 09:00-17:00 | |
| Giannitson 89 | Monday - Friday 09:00-17:00 | |
| Karakasi 50 and Konstantinou Karamanli | Monday - Friday 09:00-17:00 | |
| Katsimidi and Samou | Monday - Friday 09:00-17:00 | |
| Lagada 53-55 | Monday - Friday 09:00-17:00 | |
| Lysimachou Kautantzoglou & Goethe Tzovaropoulou | Monday - Friday 09:00-17:00 | |
| Michail Psellou & Aigaiou | Monday - Friday 09:00-17:00 | |
| Nikolaou Manou 18-20 | Monday - Friday 09:00-17:00 | |
| Olympiados 137 & Apostolou Pavlou | Monday - Friday 09:00-17:00 | |
| Pavlou Mela & Bizantos Bizyis | Monday - Friday 09:00-15:00 | |
| Pedestrian Orestou and Delfon | Monday - Friday 09:00-17:00 | |
| Pedestrian Street of Dimou Tseliou (Dimou Tseliou & Professor Konstantinos Triantafyllopoulos) | Monday - Friday 09:00-17:00 | |
| Steliou Dragoumanou & Grigoriou Koloniari | Monday - Friday 09:00-17:00 | |
| Thalitos 23 | Monday - Friday 09:00-17:00 | |
| Themistokli Sofouli and Tipa | Monday - Friday 09:00-17:00 | |
| Voulgari 74 | Monday - Friday 09:00-17:00 |
Multi-functional Recycling Centers Operation Points of N.C.A.M. “REWARDING RECYCLING”
| Address | Opening Hours | Google Map |
|---|---|---|
|
Gavrio Stadium, Parking Area |
Monday - Saturday 09:30-15:30 |
| Address | Opening Hours | Google Map |
|---|---|---|
|
Recycling and Environmental Education Park - Ioannina Gennimata Avenue & Steliou Kazantzidi. |
Monday - Saturday 09:00 - 17:00 |
| Address | Opening Hours | Google Map |
|---|---|---|
|
Former Baretti Military Camp, Lagadas Recycling & Environmental Education Park Lagadas |
Monday - Friday 09:00 - 20:00 Saturday & Sunday 09:00 - 17:00 |
| Address | Opening Hours | Google Map |
|---|---|---|
| Kallipateira Municipal Stadium | Monday - Saturday 08:00-14:40 | |
| Meg. Konstantinou str. , Gorgopotamou Square | Monday - Saturday 08:00-14:40 |
DURATION
By Friday, May 15, 2026.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
• The ‘1st National School Recycling Championship’ is open to students from classes of lower and upper secondary schools (Gymnasiums and Lyceums) of the municipalities where Multi-functional Recycling Centers are in operation.
• Students of Primary - Secondary Education schools can return for recycling plastic, metal and glass materials (from water, milk, juice, soft drinks etc.) to the sites where the Multi-purpose Recycling Centres operate (which are presented on the website www.recycling-center.gr)
• At the conclusion of the recycling process for all plastic, metal, and glass materials at the Multi-purpose Recycling Centers, the participant’s coupon of participation in the "1st National School Recycling Championship" is automatically printed.
• Students of secondary education classes collectively, as a school class, collect the participation coupons of the "1st National School Recycling Championship".
• Each school class should deliver, by Tuesday, May 19, 2026, from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, all vouchers that will have been collected and counted to the City Hall of each Municipality, after having filled out the required information in order to participate in the competition.
• The school class per grade that will collect the largest amount of recyclable materials (i.e. will have the highest participation in the recycling process) will win one of the 6 big prizes of the competition:
One (1) 5-day trip* to USA for all students of the winning class in each Secondary Education grade, to see Giannis Antetokounmpo play live in an NBA game.
• In the "1st National School Recycling Championship", the first-place school classes in each grade nationwide will be designated as the "MVP School Classes of Recycling", i.e will be declared as the winning school classes as follows:
• The top-ranking class among all 1st-grade Gymnasium classes
• The top-ranking class among all 2nd-grade Gymnasium classes
• The top-ranking class among all 3rd-grade Gymnasium classes
• The top-ranking class among all 1st-grade Lyceum classes
• The top-ranking class among all 2nd-grade Lyceum classes
• The top-ranking class among all 3rd-grade Lyceum classes
All the terms of the competition have been submitted to a notary.
PRIZES
“The grand gift-prize of the “1st National School Recycling Championship”, awarded to six (6) school classes—specifically, the top class from each grade—that recycle the largest amount of materials, is the following:
• One (1) 5-day trip* to USA for all students of the winning class in each Secondary Education grade, to see Giannis Antetokounmpo play live in an NBA game.
* The prize includes round-trip airfare, four (4) overnight stays at a 4* or 5* hotel, half-board accommodation, organized visits to local attractions, as well as one (1) ticket to an NBA game for each student and accompanying chaperone.
• Please note that the grand gift-prize is personal and non-transferable and may not be redeemed for cash.
NOMINATION OF WINNERS
The nomination of the school classes that will win the grand gift-prize of the ‘1st National School Recycling Championship’ will take place on Friday, May 29, 2026.
All the terms of the competition have been submitted to a notary.
For further information, please contact: 2109751000, 801 11 11 600 (for calls within Greece, from a landline phone)