The Municipality of Silves is already promoting the pilot project “Selective Door-to-Door Waste Collection”, in the Bairro da Caixa d´Água area, the Quinta do Lagar Urbanization and the Quinta da Barrada Urbanization.
The objective of the initiative is, according to the municipality, «to encourage a more active and conscious role on the part of citizens in the correct management of waste produced».
«After decades of encouraging recycling, recyclable disposal rates are not sufficient to reach and meet the targets defined by the European Union, which is why it is urgent to adopt measures that lead to a reduction in landfill deposits and a consequent increase in efficiency in waste management. waste, in accordance with imposed community directives", reads the Municipality's note.
Thus, in the identified pilot area, a set of small containers adapted to homes have already been made available to residents, which are used to selectively collect bio-waste, undifferentiated waste (garbage), multi-material waste (plastic/metal, paper/cardboard and glass) and diapers.
Collection will now be carried out door-to-door according to a pre-defined collection schedule.
The project is part of the “Silves a Separar da Serra ao Mar” campaign and complements existing projects of selective collection of bio-waste from cafes, restaurants and similar, and treatment of bio-waste at source, such as domestic and community composting.
Collection takes place on Mondays, between 20pm and 00am, for bio-waste and diapers, on Tuesdays, at the same time, for unsorted materials and diapers, on Thursdays for cardboard and diapers and on Fridays for bio-waste and diapers.
On Saturday, between 13pm and 00pm, it is time to collect glass and diapers.
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