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Saturday 9th September 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sunday, 3 September. So I\u2019m driving my electric car from S\u00e3o Br\u00e1s de Alportel to Monchique, located in southern Portugal. At 10.54pm I become a witness, by chance and inadvertently, to a kind of spectacle that can really only take place under cover of darkness. I have to stop my car behind the refuse truck of the Camara Municipal de Loul\u00e9, as they are in the process of emptying a recycling container at the side of the road \u2026 Hang on though – \u2026<\/p>\n

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\u2026 what are they doing? The scene is playing out in front of my windscreen in less than three minutes. At Rua Miguel Bombarda (EN 270), the CM Loul\u00e9 refuse truck is picking up three different containers with different kinds of recyclables, carefully pre-divided up by the consumer \u2013 one after the other, and two bin men are tipping them onto the bed of the truck. So is this waste or valuable resources?<\/p>\n

Is the re-joining of different recyclable resources, such as bottles, tins and plastic containers the new recycling policy of a sustainable town? No, these aren\u2019t resources really \u2013 in the end this is still \u201erefuse\u201c destined to end up on the Cortelha rubbish tip. Which is where waste is dumped and buried, as it has always been. Forever. And so it goes, day in day out, with the trash generated by our affluence. And if the rubbish tip isn\u2019t stopped at some point by a few courageous politicians with visions for the future, our children and their children will become beggars, who one day will scour the trash of their ancestors for raw materials that may still be used. Shall we just close our eyes and carry on as usual, just because it\u2019s comfortable like this? For how much longer?<\/p>\n

Now if I hadn\u2019t seen this with mine own eyes I wouldn\u2019t have believed it. So I drive on, already thinking about the 2023 edition of the FAVA fair and the Round Table scheduled to take place on Friday 22 September at 6pm in Loul\u00e9 at that very FAVA fair. Said Round Table aims to bring guests together to discuss the current sustainability of the cities of tomorrow. And I\u2019m supposed to lead the discussion. Are today\u2019s cities even working in a sustainable way? Or is this but greenwashing? Do these cities stand a chance of enjoying a sustainable future? Or will they disappear like Babylon, Pompeii or Troy? We will discuss issues such as the circular economy, waste and water management in times of drought, energy self-sufficiency, food production and distribution, as well as urban mobility, to mention but a few. We\u2019ll have to talk about urban landscapes that from 2030 onwards won\u2019t emit any more CO2. Is this even possible?<\/p>\n

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My job as a journalist here is to present and lead proceedings. Guests including mayor V\u00edtor Aleixo, but also those who deliver water to customers or pick up their trash, will be my interlocutors. This could indeed be interesting if round tables<\/em> didn\u2019t always produce such boring, inconsequential\u2026 well, bla. So I should have a good think about how to make this an interesting evening. I should provoke the participants with risqu\u00e9 statements and stimulate them to come up with ways towards a solution. As for myself, I live in the forest and within nature. Living in cities? Thanks, but no thanks.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Participantes:<\/strong><\/p>\n

V\u00edtor Aleixo \u2013 Mayor of Loul\u00e9<\/p>\n

S\u00f3nia Soares \u2013 Head of the Floresta Nativa project<\/p>\n

In\u00eas Mesquita \u2013 Head of the Al-Bio federation of Algarvian biological producers<\/p>\n

\u00c2ngela Rosa \u2013 Head of the Ecotopia Activa federation<\/p>\n

Carlos Manso \u2013 President of the administrative council, Inframoura<\/p>\n

Pedro Pimp\u00e3o \u2013 President of the administrative council, Infraquinta<\/p>\n

Noel Santos – Co-organiser, Animal Save & Care Portugal<\/p>\n

Patr\u00edcia Fernandes and S\u00e9rgio Pinto \u2013 Representatives of Oficina Electro-Loul\u00e9<\/p>\n

Cl\u00e1udio Casimiro \u2013 President of the administrative council of Loul\u00e9 Concelho Global<\/p>\n

Bruno Fonseca – Speaker for the directing council, federation of electric vehicle users<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>\n

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Uwe Heitkamp (62)<\/h3>\n\t\t\ttrained TV journalist, book author and hobby botanist, father of two grown-up children, knows Portugal for 30 years, founder of ECO123. Translations: Dina Ad\u00e3o, John Elliot, Ruth Correia, Patr\u00edcia Lara, Kathleen Becker
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