The project is called “Muxagata Aldeia Sustentável” [“Muxagata Aldeia Sustentável”] and promotes community composting, door-to-door waste collection and bonuses for those who separate bio-waste correctly. The parish of Muxagata, in the municipality of Fornos de Algodres, now has a door-to-door collection system that sends bio-waste for treatment on a community composting island. The project is […]
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This new equipment has greater compaction and storage capacity, reducing the need for waste collection by about eight times. The town of Cascais has 140 smart waste bins that help reduce the ecological footprint of the collection and cleaning operation. The City Council has relaunched this initiative with a new image, under the motto “Leave […]
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Sintra provides discounts to those who separate food waste. From North to the South of the country, we give you the opportunity to discover the bio-waste collection programs. You don’t sort your kitchen’s food scraps yet? By December 31, 2023, the selective collection of this bio-waste will be mandatory in Portugal and in the European […]
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Avoiding landfills, this project takes advantage of the existing collection circuits and existing equipment in Cascais to transform food waste into energy. Cascais is the first municipality in the country to collect bio-waste throughout its territory. The expansion of what started as a pilot project began in October 2022 and has recently ended with the […]
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The ecocenters will run around the city, staying three days in each strategic point. Plastic, paper, and glass are already common elements in our day to day recycling. Now, when it comes to spray cans, a pot, or a light bulb, questions about which ecoponto is the right one can start to arise. Thinking about […]
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From diapers that turn into compost, to diapers made from recycled cardboard, there are more and more projects being born to prevent this waste from simply ending up in landfills. It is estimated that a baby uses about 5,000 diapers until the age of 3, the moment they generally ditch the diapers. Once discarded, diapers […]
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The pieces on display are made from wasted materials, but also butts and even trash associated with the pandemic, such as masks and tests. Bordalo II presents “Evilution”, his new solo exhibition, at Edu Hub Lisbon. The exhibition is a kind of retrospective, which includes works already known, but also three new series. In this […]
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