The Autonomous Agency for Festivals and Recreational Activities (Oafar), together with the Public Services area, are working to reduce the impact of Carnival on the street, through the reduction of waste that ends up on the road. Thus, according to the mayor of public servicesCarlos Tarife, “we have transferred to those who are going to install bars outside their businesses that they do not use cans for the different soft drinks, but rather pull from the tap.”
According to the mayor, “the objective is to prevent these cans from ending up on the ground, as usually happens.” The other measure that has been transferred to businesses is the use of glasses for various uses. “It’s about reducing the presence of plastics on the street, so that a person can use the same glass throughout the night,” he says.
The mayor of Public Services trusts that, with these measures, plus the application of the new ordinance that is already in force and that toughens the fines for spitting, urinating or defecating in the street, a cleaner city will be achieved after the passage of the Carnival.
For this, it also advances that “both Fiestas and Public Services are going to install more public toilets this year with the aim of facilitating compliance with the regulations.” In addition, Tarife recalls, “access to the bathroom cannot be prohibited to the person who is consuming in a local”.
As for the criticism from some police unions about the new ordinance, where they warn that it will not be a priority to fine for urinating in the street in Carnival, the mayor is blunt. “I don’t know of any place in Spain where the ordinances are suspended because they are at parties, so here the ordinance will not be suspended because we are in Carnival!”
“I can only say that the priorities are evident, but if the Local Police sees the commission of an infraction, their obligation is to report it,” he adds.
