Presentation prepared by the participants of the youth exchange "Three Rs for the Environment"

1. WASTE
MANAGEMENT
PORTUGAL

2. Plano Estratégico para os Resíduos Urbanos
(PERSU) – Strategic paln for urban waste
Plano Estratégico para resíduos hospitalares
(PERH) – Strategic plan for hospital waste
Plano Estratégico de Gestão dos Resíduos Industriais
(PEGRI) – Strategic Plan for Industrial Waste Management

3. Till the end of the 90s – only deposit in Landfills
(more or less 300 – one per Municipality.
Then comes PERSU
The old Landfills were closed and new infrastructures were built.
Instead of one Landfill per Municipality, this structures began to
be used by several Municipalities (beginning of intercity
organization)

4. Private companies are
created and make protocols
with the Cities.
Instead of the 257 waste
management companies we
now have only 23.

5. Trash separation bins that exist at the public places are
responsibility of this management companies but the
waste management itself is responsibility of Sociedade
Ponto Verde (Green Dot Society)
Specific waste like batteries have protocols with the
intermunicipaly companies and other waste management
companies

6. 90% of the glass is separated
78% of plastic and paper
74% of newspapers and magazins
Less separated
32% deodorant packages and can of pre-cooked meals
Crises seems not to affect families separation, but the
comsumption has been reduced because of crises, so
therefore is less waste
69% of portuguese homes separates

7. FROM 1996 TILL 2014 RECYCLING
HAS INCREASED 100%
Collecting
Selective Collecting
Non Selective
Collecting
Separation waste
center
Composting Landfill Incineration
RecyclingMaterials Organic Valorization
Energy recovery
Reject
Landfill Incineration