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As of 11 June 2018, the municipality of Valongo, which is an associated municipality of ACR+ member LIPOR, will extend the door-to-door separate collection of organic waste to additional 800 houses.  From February 2018, the municipality was conducting a pilot project of separate collection of organic waste in 600 houses. The result of which were excellent in terms of quantity collected. As such, it has been decided to extend the project. With this project, the municipality expects to promote separate collection of organic waste and, in the long term, change current waste collection system.
 
Part of the amounts collected through the sale of collected waste for recycling and composting will be donated to several volunteer organizations.

Source: www.lipor.pt  (in Portuguese)

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