Terra à Terra - Home composting

In 2007, LIPOR (Porto inter-municipality) set up “Terra à Terra - Home Composting Project” that aims to promote organic waste reduction at households, schools, institutions and companies of Lipor’s Municipalities. With this project LIPOR will distribute 10.000 composting bins to households, schools, institutions and companies with gardens located in Lipor’s Municipalities by 2012. Taking into account the quantitative monitoring that LIPOR did on 2000 participants of the project, it is estimated that the home composting project allows for a potential reduction of around 300 kg biowaste / compost bin/year. Thus, the potential bio-waste reduction is about 3.000 ton bio-waste/year, assuming that 10.000 compost bins are distributed and properly used. This corresponds to 0.6% of the total waste generation in the LIPOR area or 3% of the bio-waste. As this bio-waste will no longer have to be treated at the energy recovery plant, LIPOR might prevent the emission of 528 ton CO2/year (1 ton bio-waste incinerated = 0,170 ton CO2).

FURTHER INFORMATION: 
LIPOR  Ana Lopes:   ana.lopes@lipor.pt Tel.: +351 229 770 100 l Fax: +351 229 770145

Websites:  www.lipor.pt  www.hortadaformiga.com

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