Portugal government tackles foreign trash issue amid wave of indignation

  04 February 2020    Read: 1041
Portugal government tackles foreign trash issue amid wave of indignation

Reacting to people who spoke out against trash from other countries being dumped in Portuguese landfills, the Socialist government announced on Monday it would adopt urgent measures to tackle the issue, Reuters reported.

Two weeks ago, Reuters revealed that a private landfill in Sobrado, a village in Portugal’s northern region, was receiving waste from various European nations.

Some 330,000 tonnes of “amber list” trash, which includes waste containing hazardous substances and needs prior approval, arrived in Portugal from abroad in 2018, a 53% increase from the year before, the country’s environment agency APA said.

Around 110,000 tonnes of this trash ended up in landfills, with the remaining waste being routed for valorization, the process of turning waste into a resource.


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