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LIFE PAYT project celebrates its third anniversary during meeting with partners

The LIFE PAYT Project Board meeting took place on 22 November at the premises of the Condeixa-a-Nova City Council. This meeting was attended by the Portuguese beneficiaries (Polytechnic of Coimbra, Aveiro Municipality, Condeixa Municipality and  University of Aveiro), as well as the Greek (National Technical University of Athens, Vrilissia Municipality) and Cypriot (Larnaka Municipality, via skype) beneficiaries. Each partner presented the activities developed, followed by a participatory discussion on the implementation work to be carried out in the coming months. The meeting was used as an opportunity to celebrate the 3rd anniversary of the Project. This celebration was marked by

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LIFE PAYT Project meets with the European Court of Auditors (ECA)

On  November 19th 2019, Dr. Célia Dias Ferreira coordinator of the LIFE PAYT project, met with the European Court of Auditors (ECA), at the premises of the Portuguese Environment Agency, to present the achieved objectives and the obstacles faced during the implementation of the LIFE PAYT project The presence of the ECA in Portugal is part of an ongoing EU audit action in order to combat and reduce plastic waste. This audit, which also includes other Member States, aims to identify and understand the practices and obstacles in the management of plastic waste throughout the waste hierarchy. Additionally,  it also

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Condeixa: New vehicle will measure garbage and relieve the bill of those who recycle the most

] The municipality of Condeixa-a-Nova has just received a new vehicle for the collection of undifferentiated waste that aims to respond to the implementation of the PAYT system, which is expected to come into force in the first quarter of 2020, benefiting those who most separate recyclable waste. The new vehicle for the collection of undifferentiated urban waste, has a capacity of 15 m3, was acquired under the application designated Con(DEIXA)-à-PORTA, submitted to POSEUR (Operational Program for Sustainability and Efficiency in the Use of Resources), representing an investment of almost 155 thousand euros, 85% co-financed by the program, the remaining

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LIFEPAYT project intends that each citizen only pay for the waste they throw in the container

“LIFE PAYT” Coimbra Polytechnic Institute leads the development of a system that can reduce the value of the tariff for solid waste management in the water bill. The Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra (IPC) is developing a project that allows each citizen to pay only the undifferentiated waste they throw away and which reduces the water bill. In a statement released yesterday, the IPC said that the “LIFEPAYT” project, which is in the testing phase, with samples of the population, in Lisbon, Aveiro and Condeixa-a-Nova, has the objective “that citizens pay only what they lay down in the undifferentiated waste container

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Polytechnic of Coimbra develops project to reduce tariff for solid waste in the water bill

The Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra (IPC) is developing a project that allows each citizen to pay only the undifferentiated waste they throw away and that reduces the water bill, it was announced today. IPC says that the “LIFEPAYT” project, which is in the testing phase, with samples of the population, in Lisbon, Aveiro and Condeixa-a-Nova (Coimbra), aims to “make citizens pay only what they put in the container undifferentiated waste and separate more at home to have access to a fairer rate ”. In Lisbon and Condeixa-a-Nova the system applies to commercial producers and, in Aveiro, to domestic waste. “The

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Coimbra develops project to reduce tariff for solid waste in water bill

The Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra (IPC) is developing a project that allows each citizen to pay only the undifferentiated waste they throw away and that reduces the water bill, it was announced today. In a statement sent to the Lusa agency, the IPC said that the “LIFEPAYT“ project, which is in the testing phase, with samples of the population, in Lisbon, Aveiro and Condeixa-a-Nova (Coimbra), aims at “that citizens pay only what you throw into the undifferentiated garbage container and separate more at home to have access to a more just tariff ”. In Lisbon and Condeixa-a-Nova the system applies

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Condeixa in project to reduce tariff for solid waste in the water bill

The Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra (IPC) is developing a project that allows each citizen to pay only the undifferentiated waste they throw away and that reduces the water bill, it was announced today. In a statement sent to the Lusa agency, the IPC said that the “LIFEPAYT” project, which is in the testing phase, with samples of the population, in Lisbon, Aveiro and Condeixa-a-Nova (Coimbra), aims at “that citizens pay only what you throw into the undifferentiated garbage container and separate more at home to have access to a more just tariff ”. In Lisbon and Condeixa-a-Nova the system applies

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Interest in composting: 37% of respondents were interested

In order to understand what the citizen thinks about composting, the LIFE PAYT project carried out a survey in the PAYT system intervention area which is being implemented in the neighborhood of Forca-Vouga, in Aveiro. Only two out of 76 respondents use organic waste to compost. One of them is Rui Jorge Sousa, who has been composting in his backyard for seven years. He reports that growing fruits and vegetables has become a habit, and does not consider an effort to compost and then see the good results in strawberries and lettuce. “It is enough to deposit the organic waste

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In Lisbon, the waste containers will have sensors to alert when full

Published by Smart Cities | Mar 25th, 2019 “More technology, more cleaning ”, says the municipality of Lisbon. The Portuguese capital is installing smart sensors in several waste containers around the city, and it is expected that this network will soon have at least 2,600 units. The municipality of Lisbon is placing volumetric reading sensors in several underground and surface waste containers, which, according to the municipality, will “make more efficient the waste collection and resource management”. These sensors are already available in the 750 underground containers (eco-islands) that were recently installed in the Portuguese capital, as well as in

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