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Terranova and NoticiasdeAveiro – November 18, 2020 The Municipality of Aveiro concluded, this Monday, November 16, with enormous success, the pioneer project in Europe, “LIFE PAYT”. A pilot experiment in the Urbanization of Forca Vouga that aimed to test a prototype surface container for collective use, with access control, for the deposition of undifferentiated urban waste. Domestic and non-domestic users in the pilot area, in order to deposit their waste, had to use a PAYT (pay as you throw) card with chip. For each opening of the container, 30 liters of undifferentiated urban waste produced (PAYT model by volume) were

Source: Terranova – November 17, 2020 Aveiro Municipality Aveiro concluded, this Monday, November 16, “with enormous success”, the pioneering project in Europe, ‘LIFE PAYT’. A pilot experiment in the Urbanization of Forca Vouga that aimed to test a prototype surface container for collective use, with access control, for the deposition of undifferentiated urban waste. The project was the target of successive criticisms from environmental collectives, namely from the Portuguese Association of Environmental Education , which criticized what they understood to be the lack of involvement of resident citizens for a “key” access system to containers. Domestic and non-domestic users in

Source: Diário de Aveiro Diário de Aveiro – Page 03 – 17th September, 2020 General adherence to the waste collection project is missing The municipality installed in Forca-Vouga Urbanization the second version of the waste containers that open with cardboard, but there are still bags on the floor or on the lid. The successful application of the European project “LIFEPAYT” in Aveiro – which accounts for the waste deposited by Forca-Vouga residents in electronic containers and aims to promote the separation of plastic, glass, metal and paper – no longer depends on the equipment because, now, the lid is “more

Source: Terranova Terranova – August 4th, 2020 Aveiro does not give up on the European project LIFE PAYT and announces that August marks the resumption of the pilot experience with the 26 containers with access control (PAYT containers) in the Forca Vouga Urbanization. The municipality recognizes that the first testing phase, which took place in 2018, identified “mechanical problems” with the type of container installed, which forced the intervention of the service provider to find the best solution. The second version comes with a more robust cover, with a wider opening and a simple drum with less chance of damage.

Source: Diário de Aveiro Diário de Aveiro – Page 03 – August 5, 2020 The experimental “PAYT” container is due to return soon. The municipality guarantees that giving up was never an option. As part of the European project “Life Payt”, the  municipality of Aveiro has just announced that it will resume, during this month, the pilot experience with the 26 “Payt” containers with access control, in the Urbanização da Forca-Vouga. The municipality acknowledges, in a statement, that in the first testing phase, which took place in 2018, “mechanical problems were identified with the type of container installed, which led to a

The event was attended by national and international speakers and took place simultaneously with an exhibition of equipment for PAYT systems (“pay-as-you-throw”), which aim to reduce the waste bill. As part of the CERNAS LIFE PAYT project -IPC, on November 21st the workshop “PAYT in Portugal … the next steps!” Was held in the auditorium of the Museu Romano Portugal in Sicó (PO.RO.S) in Condeixa-a-Nova, in order to promote innovation in the waste sector. Alongside this initiative, an equipment exhibition took place, promoted by technological development companies in the PAYT area, in which products and tools available in the national