Aste Nagusia Bilbao: 710 new cubes and containers – Norte Exprés
Bilbao’s Aste Nagusia is approaching. And there are environmental goals. Container reinforcement to hundreds will help: A total of 710.
Minimizing the negative impact on the environment, in terms of waste generation, is one of the great challenges in the organization of every big event.
In this sense, the City Council is committed to an increasingly sustainable Aste Nagusia and, in fact, puts all the means at its disposal to:
- reduce waste generated, above all, those for a single use.
- realize a correct separation of this waste, focusing on a reduction, as far as possible, of the use of plastic.
That is why, in order to facilitate waste management, there will be a wide battery of buckets and containers of the different fractions in the different spaces holidays.
In the concert areas will be reinforced the usual device with the placement of others 250 buckets and containers of the different fractions.
In addition, personnel and vehicles will be assigned, exclusively dedicated to the selective collection of glass, paper and cardboard, organic and packaging.
The enclosure of txosnasinside them, they will be enabled 160 containers of different recyclable fractions; and another 300 medium-sized containers will be installed Dispensers in the different festive spaces.
All this to promote recycling and separation at source. Notably in 2019, 666 tons of waste were collected during Aste Nagusia –13% more than the previous year– of which 539 tons were deposited in the rest fraction.