Following its presentation to the council, Cordeiro told journalists that the target was in keeping with national goals and represented “one of the fundamental pillars to the environmental sector and to the city in forthcoming years.”
The 2015-2020 Waste Management Plan, Lisbon’s first, stems from
the restructuring of the city’s parish councils and the autonomy granted to the waste collection services at the beginning of 2015.
The council is also committed to attaining a 42 percent recycling rate through to the end of the plan contrasting with the 31 percent rate returned in 2014 and up the selective recovery of materials to 66 kilos per year from the 60 kilo performance turned in last year.
The municipal vice president explained that this would involve extending the eco-centre system still further with such facilities providing for the more effective recycling of wastes such as paper, wood and batteries whilst also enabling “monitoring the behaviour of citizens” and recognising strengths and weaknesses in the overall network.
Cordeiro also said that the system of selectively collecting waste, different materials on different days, would be extended to 20,000 more households by the end of the decade and thus further boost levels of recycling that have been climbing steadily since 1991.
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