City Council and UTE Alicante launch a campaign on pet ownership

• Stool collection and urine cleaning will be encouraged, and support materials will be distributed to their owners.

Alicante, November 23, 2022. Alicante City Council’s Department of Street Cleaning and Waste Management and concessionaire UTE Alicante launched an awareness campaign on pet ownership this Thursday that will encompass the eight districts with the highest animal presence in the city. . The action aims to directly inform pet owners of their rights and obligations and will focus on the need to collect feces and clean their urine in order to achieve a cleaner Alicante.

Manuel Villar, Councilor for Environment, Street Cleaning and Waste Management, and Parks and Gardens, said, “From Thursday, November 24 to December 4, a spot of the city will be visited every day with a booth attended by two environmentalists, educators characterized by the presence of a large number of pets. A total of eight areas where animals will be entertained, their feces collected, and materials distributed for urine cleaning.

The awareness stand will be set up at the entrance of Babel Market on Avenida de México on Thursday 24th, and in Plaza la Viña in the afternoon. In the coming days, Plaza de España (25th), Tossal Park (26th), Cochera de Tranvías Park (27th) will be visited and joint action will be held with the Animal Protection Department, Rodolfo Salazar Street (1 December), Parque lo Morant (2nd). . day), Miriam Blasco street (day 3) and Dr. Jiménez Díaz street (day 4).

“Your dog also makes Alicante cleaner”

With the slogan “Your dog also makes Alicante cleaner” and under the brand “You do Alicante”, which includes awareness campaigns for UTE Alicante’s City Council, two environmental educators will tour eight sites with a large mobile booth. The influx of pets to directly raise awareness among pet-owning citizens of their rights and obligations to keep parks, gardens and public spaces clean of animal excrement and urine.

Thus, for two full weeks, pet owners will be able to find their mobile booth where they will be informed about their obligations as owners, learn about the Alicante dog parks closest to their homes or pick up their dogs. A bag dispenser to collect feces or a small bottle for cleaning urine, among other things.

In order for this to be a fun and educational space and to go viral on social networks, the booth will also feature various Christmas-themed photo talks for taking pictures with your pet and messages of a commitment to keep a city together. cleaner every day.

The campaign will also report on “Fake News of Poops” and is part of the #AlicantePetFriendly initiative as it is organized by the sanitation department but has collaborations with the animal welfare department.

In short, in the department’s words, “a campaign that seeks to ensure that pets in Alicante enjoy all the rights that correspond to them, but in turn let their owners know their obligation to respect others and that the public spaces they walk in”.

Therefore, another of the slogans that the campaign will address will be “you are responsible for what you love” and “we can all live better every day in this wonderful world” by integrating pets and the city of Alicante. city”, according to Villar.