Tatarstan President gets familiar with city facilities in Barcelona

On February 24 during his working trip to Barcelona Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov made a walking tour around the city to get familiar with innovative solutions in the sphere of municipal economy.

In particular, in the center of Catalonia Rustam Minnikhanov became acquainted with waste sorting system, which has been successfully applied for about 20 years. Catalan citizens have been used to the system and sort garbage in three different types of containers. For instance, cardboard, aluminum and plastic packaging is collected in the yellow container and transported to the waste sorting plan for further sorting and recycling.

Walking about the city streets, Tatarstan President also looked around one of the modern bus stops. A bus stop in Barcelona contains information about all buses and their routes and is equipped with an interactive information display.

Finally, Rustam Minnikhanov got familiar with the automatic parking control system applied in the streets.