WILLEMSTAD – Selikor has collected a total of more than sixty thousand kilos of waste after the seven carnival parades that were held this year. Outliers were the Marcha Grandi (big parade on Sunday) with 24,000 kilos of waste and the Despedida Grandi (Tuesday parade), when more than 16,000 kilos were collected.
The waste processor says that the type of waste does not differ much from previous years, such as cups, bottles, Styrofoam and plastic bags. We can also see that the public has used Selikor's waste bags as well as their own waste bags.
The 60,000 kilos collected this year is considerably less than the more than 100,000 kilos during the carnival in 2019. Even then, the big march and the farewell march were the biggest polluters.