The colorful decoration, lanterns, stars and shining Santas, have been made from materials taken from the bottom of the sea.
The machines at the lighting manufacturing plant in western Thessaloniki have caught fire. The orders are among the last as most of the trucks left a long time ago with a destination all the way to the other side of the world.
The lights and decorations of the “King of Christmas” Yannis Palaiochorinou, more than 80 countries will light up again this year.
But no one can imagine that the colorful decoration, lanterns, stars and shining Santas, have been made from materials taken from the bottom of the sea.
“It’s a process we’ve been aware of for a few years and we’ve been looking to find the most suitable materials so we don’t pollute the environment and contribute as much as we can to a green planet,” he said speaking to the radio station of the Athenian/Macedonian News Agency “Agency 104″. ,9 FM”, Yiannis Paleochorinos and explained how the garbage of the seabed is turned into ornaments.
“We went through a very innovative process. From the collection of plastic bottles and nets from the sea we get the raw material. We take it to our machines and there (with the recycled material) we make stars, bells and all kinds of designs that you see in decorations hanging on the streets. A decoration that comes from discarded materials that have ended up at the bottom of the sea”, he says characteristically.
In fact, as he notes, “when this external decoration wears out after years or the owners get bored and want to change their home decoration, then the company undertakes to take back the already recycled bottle decorations and send them back for recycling. “We take back the raw material and create again, new ornaments in new designs. This big circle is the secret,” said Mr. Paleochorinos.
“The idea of ​​recycling started three years ago and this year we reached the point of using more than 150 tons of garbage, which if we match it with material in the seabed, it’s a huge number. So, our effort has paid off…”
In fact, in northern Europe – as he says – the world is so aware of the issue of recycling, that even in the lighting and decoration awarding competitions, it is a condition that it be done with recyclable materials.
From the amusement park to the top of the Christmas decorations
Yannis Paleochorinos started his contact with lights and colors from the amusement park owned and operated by his father and from a young age he often worked there for his pocket money. It was through this that he first came into contact with the splendor of adornment. Still a teenager, he made the first series of light bulbs that excited the owner of a lighting store. The light bulbs brought the star, then the tree and the widely available light tube, another of his creations.
“As a student of the Polytechnic University in the Department of Electrical Engineering, I started my own career from a humble basement of 2.20×2.40 m. on Kassandrou Street. I have always been drawn and enchanted by lighting. Both the technical and the more artistic aspect of it. When I was a student, I also studied lights. It was always … great love and I gave my whole being and all my desire to fill people’s lives with light and color,” notes Mr. Palaiohorinos. Today, it now maintains four factories and lights up Christmas and other holidays and events in many countries.
Americans will light the most Christmas lights this year
Large European municipalities, huge shopping malls around the world, advertising companies and hotel chains, trust the Thessaloniki who sold out of decorations again this year, putting his lights on from Kazakhstan and Bahrain, to California, Beverly Hills, Houston and Texas and from Sydney to Gibraltar to the European north and Heathrow which this year was “dressed” with recycled lighting from Thessaloniki.
“Until two years ago, the best customers were Germany and England. This year, however, the champion in the light bulbs is America. Besides, it has a huge market, and besides, people love the Christmas holidays too much and … heavy decorations,” says the “king of decorations” with … recycled materials, who immediately after the holidays will start the machines for the next year.
Source: Skai
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