The piles of rubbish and urine showers in the Großer Tiergarten were already a drastic problem that was never really solved in the flagship years of the Loveparade, with well over a million dancing techno fans. At that time, a citizens’ initiative was even founded against the annually recurring disfigurement of the city’s nature, at least since the mid-1990s, the raver route was relocated to the appropriately wide Straße des 17. Juni. It was also those fights against local residents that caused the former Loveparade operating company to break up. When the Loveparade ended in 2001/02, the Tiergarten was able to breathe again,
Now the garbage is coming back. The balance sheet reads pretty scary.
Since the number of ravers, said to be around 200,000 people, exceeded the preliminary plans of the crew of “Rave The Planet” many times over, the marginal phenomena of the retro scene multiplied over the weekend.
The Berliner Stadtreinigung (BSR) counted a whopping 135 cubic meters of waste that they had to collect by Sunday morning (at the expense of all taxpayers). According to research by the German Press Agency (dpa), the local media in Berlin reported that 100 employees and 46 vehicles were deployed.
In addition to beverage cartons, glass in all forms had to be disposed of. As in the 1990s, conservationists criticize uncontrolled “peeing” and “plants being trampled flat”.
When asked about this “littering”, the organizers of “Rave The Planet” explained that they also want to take stock of the controversial topics this Tuesday. A report is expected Tuesday afternoon.