1st International Workshop: Zero Pollution for a Healthier Planet and People: Book of Abstracts

• Autor(a) principal: Cruz-Lopes, Luísa
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Brás, Isabel, Silva, Maria, Rodrigues, Nuno, Lopes, Sérgio
• Tipo de documento: Livro
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.19/7612
• topic: Poluição Zero; Acordo Verde; bio-wates; mudanças climáticas

The scientifically proven systemic threats and risks associated with climate change, loss of biodiversity and increased pollution have led the European Commission to propose a European Ecological Pact (Green Deal). This Pact sets the framework for the European Union's growth policy to be adopted, with the aim of building a carbon neutral economy in 2050, more effective in the use of materials, with less pollution and regenerating biodiversity and environmental services. European policies are based on several legal documents that translate the objectives of preventing waste production, recovery of materials and final treatment of non-recoverable waste. They refer, for example, to the obligation to implement separate bio-waste collection networks or to separate and recycle in the source of the bio-waste, as well as a goal of reducing landfill: Member States should seek to ensure that, starting from 2030, no suitable waste for recycling or other recovery can be deposited in landfills. In this sequence, producers and operators of waste management ensure that waste is collected separately, to facilitate and promote its management in compliance with the principle of the hierarchy of waste. It is important that measures are implemented to achieve these objectives and that citizens are informed of the good practices that they must adopt in order to jointly promote a healthier environment. This partner event offers the presentation to the society of the strategies in Portugal to accomplish the Green Deal goals and the local measures to do the bio-wates management as well as share of good practices in waste management, in a perspective of circular economy. Several research and development works are being presented, in different areas, to promote a perspective of Zero Pollution. It is also proposed to do a citizen’s tour to the regional Solid Waste Integrated Management Centre. The final activity expects to engage citizens in out-door activities: Biodanza and Yoga, to promote healthier people.