Cleaning and Waste

Public celebrations, festivals and events often use single-use plastic plates, cups and cutlery, which end up being thrown away as rubbish, and are therefore not recycled. Consequently, Barcelona City Council offers city organisations a new, free lending service of reusable tableware, which is ideal for these occasions.

Now they can use this tableware as if it was from home: it can be used, washed, put away and used again as often as necessary.

That means organisations won't have to buy, use and throw away plastic tableware every time they organise a celebration or an event, enabling savings on materials for their manufacture, management and treatment, once they become waste.

The reusable tableware is for a maximum of 600 people and includes various kinds of plates, cups, cutlery, trays, etc., which organisations can request free of charge, depending on their needs.