The Christmas cuckoo is again in the historic center, the decorated garbage truck drives after dark
A decorated car at the vantage point of Hradčanské náměstí. Photo source: Prague services
The Christmas-decorated garbage truck of the Prague Services went to the metropolis on the first Sunday of Advent and will roam the streets of Prague until the beginning of next year. The route of this special cuckoo car, nicknamed the Christmas Cuckoo, will once again go through Nové Město, Mala Strana and Hradčany. Radim Mana, the spokesman for the collection company Pražská služby, informed about this.
“So we chose one of the most photogenic routes in Prague. The car will leave for municipal waste collection during the evening shift. It starts at 7 p.m., when it’s already dark and the decorations will stand out properly even in the photos,” said Mana.
Since most of the contents of Prague’s mixed waste bins end up in the Waste Energy Recovery Facility, the car will be visible even outside the center when it takes its load to this incinerator in Malešice.
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“Of course, this only applies to the collection of mixed waste. When we use the car to pick up the sorted one, its route will end at the sorting lines of Prague Services,” Mana explains the key difference. According to him, there is still a non-negligible percentage of people who believe that the contents of containers for sorted waste end up in the same place as mixed waste.
The crew of the car is standard. It consists of a driver and three garbage collectors. “My colleagues have known since last year that the car attracts attention and people take pictures of it. After all, we also had positive feedback on the Christmas cuckoo on our communication channels. We will be very happy if the people of Prague will again spontaneously take pictures of our Christmas garbage truck and then publish it on their social network,” adds Mana.
According to him, more than 100 garbage trucks travel the collection routes in the capital every day, one route measures 75 kilometers on average.