For the 137th edition of the Carnival of Nice, one of the floats denounced pollution and its consequences on the environment.
Beyond the awareness message, some revelers try to rethink the materials used to rethink "this tradition with the reality in which we live".
The Nice Plogging collective parades with the “stop pollution” float and took advantage of getting in touch with the revelers to act on its own scale on the ecological impact of the Nice Carnival.
The 137th Nice Carnival of the King of Beasts is coming to an end.
For this edition, seventeen floats paraded during the illuminated parades.
And among them, a giant tortoise was chewing plastic with a clear message: “Stop pollution”.
At the origin of this Nice Festivities structure, one of the historic companies of carnival-goers in Nice, of which Cédric Pignataro is the manager.
"This tank was designed 50% by cigarette butts and corks," he says.
Otherwise, for a classic structure, these are, "on average, because it's random", 1 t of metal for the frame, 100 m2 of fabric and between 50 and 100 m3 of polystyrene.
Materials that make it possible to meet "time and funding constraints".
What happens to the floats after the end of the Carnival?
Due to "lack of space", the small single-use pieces are destroyed if they are not resold or rented for other carnivals around the world.
“Everything that is exterior [paper, polyester, resin, polystyrene] goes to the recycling center to be recycled.
The steel, the motorization or the jacks, which is recoverable, is reused”, assures the municipality.
The big heads are collected by the city to be redistributed to traders the following year.
Beyond the recycling of floats and their (low) durability, the Carnival and its corsos are always accompanied by the projection, by and towards the public, of thousands of confetti and streamers.
Consequences ?
After the first weekend of festivities and a day of bad weather, the sea line was only made up of these little bits of paper and polystyrene balls.
Flowers instead of confetti?
“That's the whole problem today, between tradition and modernity, admits the reveler.
The revolution cannot happen overnight, but we become aware of the impact and the responsibilities we have.
By participating in an event of this magnitude, we can also raise public awareness of an important topic”.
He then invited the Nice Plogging collective, which collects waste, to accompany this corso.
"We managed to ensure that no confetti was thrown from the structure, it was completely contradictory with our message", indicates Mathieu Perino, volunteer in the organization, who will not stop at this "first victory ".
“We know that there are carnivals in Italy that manage to reconcile tradition and respect for the environment.
For the confetti, we can do something from the next edition by using dried flowers or those that are intended to be thrown away for example.
It's achievable, we'll do everything for it.
We don't teach morals, but we lead by example.
And I know that some revelers have this desire to be more eco-responsible.
The party is not incompatible with ecology”.
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Not a priority for greens
Questioned
on the ecological impact of the demonstration
,
Juliette Chesnel-Le Roux, elected EELV to the town hall of Nice answers that "the group is not radical and does not have the will to prohibit the Carnival or to remove the confetti because that they would pollute”.
The concerns of ecologists are then the accessibility of the event.
“The only questionable aspect of the Carnival is that it is a popular celebration.
It has nothing popular as it is today, with barricades, walls and where people are parked between barriers.
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