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Cais Recicla is dedicated to creating new products made from materials that would otherwise end up in landfills. They also have a strong social aspect as they train homeless people to develop their personal and professional skills.
CAIS Recicla presents itself as a transformative workshop. This is because it transforms lives, products and companies.
“Cais Recicla is a recycling project, but it’s more than that. We try to integrate this aspect with the integration of homeless people,” says Alexandre Teixeira, the coordinator.
They transform obsolete materials into new products. From waste, they create unique pieces with design lines developed specifically for each client. And all of this is done by homeless people.
The companies/institutions that buy Cais Recicla products are responding to a cause of social and environmental responsibility.
This time it was ANI – Agência Nacional de Inovação (National Innovation Agency) that took advantage of Cais Recicla’s skills, handing over the tarpaulins used at ANI events to be transformed into lanyards (identification ribbons) for their future events.
This is not the first time that Cais Recicla has worked with used tarpaulins. They already had a series of tote bags made from scraps of canvas used to decorate the construction sites of the new Metro lines.
In this link you’ll find the catalog with all the products for sale, always made by talented hands who just needed a chance. The materials, on the other hand, are always reused.
Marta Cerqueira is from Minho and a vegetarian. Luckily, she lives in Lisbon, where there is more tofu than sarrabulho. She has been a journalist for over 15 years, the last of which writing about food and sustainability. Now, out of the newsroom, she continues to write whenever she can, be it in magazines, journals, post its, or on her Instagram page, which she uses to share a life divided between being a mom-person-foodie-traveler. Still, she created Peggada so she could write about what doesn't fit in a magazine, journal, post it or Instagram: a better world.
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