The university parties are an environmental concern, the Portuguese municipalities, together with more proactive citizens and private entities find sustainable solutions to the problem.
News recently publish the initiative of a young windsurfer, Jorge Fernando Paiva, who proceeded with a group of volunteers of the collecting at the bottom of the river Mondego of 214 supermarket trolleys, a total of 3 tons of plastic and metal. Over three days, with a motorboat and a platform donated by Academic Association of Coimbra (AAC), 64 of these objects were collected in the river bed and 150 more were located in the river bank, that were simply abandoned after the academic celebrations. To resolve the situation Fernando Paiva, together with the local municipality and the hypermarkets, offered students an alternative solution, more environmentally friendly, so that such behavior is not repeated, were released in various parts of the city 6 parks for the voluntary surrender of grocery carts. But that's not all, this year alone, 18 tons of solid waste were produced, only on the day of the procession of the burning the capes of Coimbra. Unfortunately this and other scenarios are not the only case of the central region, the university parties, all over the country are one of the biggest logistical nightmares of several Portuguese municipalities, who has been finding more sustainable solutions to the problem, through partnerships with private companies linked to the recycling industry and environmental organizations. But, here's the numbers. To the north, the city hall of Oporto joined LIPOR within a multimaterial recovery strategy and undertook selective separation of waste produced by students throughout the academic week which handled 35, 000 000 students, 45 tons of trash were collected to recycle. Of which 56% were timber, followed by glass that was around 28%, 8% of plastic and metal, 5% plastic and finally 3% paper. To the south, in Lisbon, for the first time this year, thanks to an environmental initiative of the green dot society, the welcoming mega party of the freshman allowed to collect 1.5 tonnes of glass packaging and 700kg of wastes that were sent to energy recovery.
