{"id":74596,"date":"2026-01-17T04:47:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T04:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eco123.info\/?p=74596"},"modified":"2026-01-17T11:39:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T11:39:01","slug":"vamos-lixar-o-lixo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eco123.info\/en\/zw1-2-en\/vamos-lixar-o-lixo\/","title":{"rendered":"Vamos lixar o lixo?"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Theobald Tiger<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

At the beginning of the last century, a clever European philosopher from Denmark left us with the following quote: <\/span><\/span>\u201cLife can often only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards…\u201d<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Lisbon. The Portuguese Environment Agency (APA) overslept at the start of the new year with the theme of its 2026 information campaign,<\/span><\/span> \u201cVamos lixar o lixo\u201d<\/b><\/span><\/span> (Let’s clean up the rubbish). It was not until 12 January 2026 that it woke up amid the New Year’s rubbish of history and quickly sent ECO123 the following press release: \u201c<\/span><\/span>At the beginning of 2026, the APA (Agencia Portuguesa do Ambiente) proposes as a New Year’s resolution that society become aware of a monumental problem and contribute to its solution: Every year, three million tons of waste are stored in landfills…\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Oh, right. Oh, yes. There was something else.<\/i><\/span><\/span> The rubbish. Didn’t we at ECO123 publish several short stories of success on the topic of \u2018zero waste\u2019 (<\/span><\/span>DESPERDICIO<\/span><\/span> ZERO<\/span><\/span>) in several editions last year, much to the annoyance of many local politicians? Was that not enough? The issue still keeps us awake at night. And so we must conclude that the goal of the campaign is not to separate rubbish, but that avoiding rubbish is the only real solution…<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

We named one supermarket the most environmentally friendly in the Algarve. A supermarket that sells drinks in returnable bottles and takes back the empty bottles in exchange for a deposit. Not a huge achievement, but still… Only one supermarket in the entire Algarve does this: APOLONIA in Almancil, in Gal\u00e9 and in Lagoa. And the others? LIDL? No. Continente? No. Pingo Doce? No. The list goes on. Do we want to be innovative, or just continue to sleep through the day? Hello, dear reader! Hello, dear bureaucrats, who have slept through the New Year on our tax money…<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n