Informação: Marta Guerreiro stressed "excellent performance" of Flores in waste management The Regional Secretary for Energy, Environment and Tourism highlighted on Flores the "excellent performance" in waste management to such as extent that, for the second consecutive year, all urban waste was recovered. "In 2016 and 2017, about 85% of urban waste was sent for recycling and organic recovery (composting) and the remaining 15% for energy recovery at TERAMB," said Marta Guerreiro. She s... Mais >> Informação: Registrations for 9th Azores Waste Week open The Regional Secretary for Energy, Environment and Tourism, through the Regional Directorate for the Environment, promotes the 9th Azores Waste Week from November between November 17 and 25. Organised under the 10th European Week for Waste Reduction, this initiative includes several actions organised by various public and private entities on all islands. Any entity interested in promoting awarenes... Mais >> Informação: Regional Government promotes initiatives to combat food waste The Regional Secretariat for Energy, Environment and Tourism, through the Regional Directorate for the Environment, will promote several workshops on the use of food leftovers for the restaurant sector. The workshops are scheduled for September 5 on São Jorge, September 6 on Terceira and September 7 on Graciosa, culminating with the celebrations of the World Food Day on the island of Santa M... Mais >> Informação: Regional Directorate for Sea Affairs raises awareness of participants in Sea Week nautical festival for the problem of marine litter The Regional Director for Sea Affairs stated in Horta that the Government of the Azores intends to be "an active partner in the fight against the global scourge of marine litter." According to Filipe Porteiro, the awareness of populations, "especially among younger generations," for this problem is "fundamental to change behaviours and to reverse the course of the problem." The regional Director s... Mais >> Informação: Marta Guerreiro says the Region recycled "more than half" of urban waste produced in 2017 The Regional Secretary for Energy, Environment and Tourism stated today that there was an "increase in material and organic recovery as well as in energy recovery" in 2017, adding that the Azores are now recovering "more than half of urban waste produced," corresponding to 51 %. Marta Guerreiro spoke at the opening of the Automated Sorting Centre on the island of São Miguel. On the occasion, ... Mais >> Informação: Regional Government promotes campaign to raise awareness of seafarers to bring waste produced on board to land The Regional Secretary for the Sea, Science and Technology urged seafarers "to bring the waste produced on board professional fishing or recreational fishing vessels to land." Gui Menezes spoke on Faial Island during an action organised under the "Zero Waste in the Azores Sea" campaign. According to him, this project "aims to draw the attention of seafarers that marine litter is a very serious and... Mais >> Informação: Registrations for 8th Azores Waste Week open The Regional Secretariat for Energy, Environment and Tourism, through the Regional Directorate for the Environment, promotes the 8th Azores Waste Week from November 18 to 26, 2017. Organised under the 9th European Week for Waste Reduction, this initiative includes several actions organised by various public and private entities on all islands. Any entity interested in promoting awareness-raising a... Mais >> Informação: Government of the Azores has strategy to reduce waste production and increase its reuse The Regional Director for the Environment stated today that the Government of the Azores has an ongoing sustainability strategy based on a series of initiatives aimed at the reduction of waste production and reuse of waste, some of which are underway while others will be implemented shortly. Hernâni Jorge spoke in Porto Formoso during a debate on "Waste and Circular Economy," an initiative h... Mais >> Informação: Waste Week with 126 awareness-raising actions on all islands The Government of the Azores, through the Regional Directorate for the Environment, promotes the 7th Azores Waste Week between November 19 and 27 as part of the European Week for Waste Reduction. This initiative includes actions organised by public and private entities on all islands with the aim of raising awareness and inform people on proper waste management at island level. Moreover, they are ... Mais >> Informação: Government of the Azores presents plan to reduce waste production in the Region The Regional Secretary for Agriculture and the Environment stated today in Ponta Delgada that the Waste Management Strategic Plan of the Azores (PEPGRA) has awarded priority status to the reduction of waste production and the increase of the reuse of waste.
"From the standpoint of waste management, citizens and institutions should be guided, in the first instance, by the need to reduce the produ... Mais >>
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