Smart Waste Portugal Association announces creation of the Vidro+ platform
The Smart Waste Portugal Association announced the creation of the Glass+ Platform at the ASWP/Serralves 2022 conference “Smart Growth: the Role of the Circular Economy”, which aimed at various entities and companies and aimed to take stock of the current state of the economy. circular economy in Portugal.
During the event, the various stakeholders debate what are today the main challenges and opportunities of the circular economy towards economic growth. Different current topics were presented, such as examples and models of the crisis, presented and models of impact on circularity, were also presented as objectives and proposed economic models, as business models proposed as examples and business models presented as well identified as models of business. circular economy, and there is still time for a presentation on how sustainability can be financed.
Glass+ Platform
This is a collaborative initiative that aims to create a compromise between different agents in the packaging glass value chain, with the aim of promoting an increase in the recycling rate of glass in Portugal.
The Glass+ Platform’s vision is to transform Portugal into a country of reference in the collection and recycling of glass packaging as well as the incorporation of recycled glass in the production of new packaging. This initiative aims to collect 90% of glass packaging on the market by 2030 for recycling.
According to Engº Aires Pereira, president of the Board of the Smart Waste Portugal Association: “It is always a huge satisfaction to reach the same table and companies that are close with the goals with regard to circularity. Similar to the work carried out with the Portuguese Plastics Pact, and with a common vision and a desirable objective, now comes the turn of glass, through the creation of a platform for the circularity of glass packaging in Portugal. It is likely that the platform will make it possible to define different types of packaging and metadata that will respond to the ambiguity and meta-compliance of legislation and recycling and national recycling targets for glass packaging containers and recycled materials”.
Waste declassification
Another theme, of equal importance, was the declassification of the masses. The concept of circular economy, as an economic system, aims to minimize the introduction of resources from the generation of waste and energy waste.
The declassification of waste has, in fact, a fundamental role in the business transformation necessary for the transition to a circular economy model.
In this regard, Smart Waste Portugal intends to contribute so that, in Portugal, a waste sector becomes a resource sector, increasing the capacity of the Portuguese economy to establish internal supply chains, with reduced associated environmental impact and that maximize value. of resources in the economy.
Scarcity
There were two presentations, the first theme still two loads from Dr. Paulo, which were designed for a circular economy to be assumed already, as a circular economy was assumed by the economy itself, which each of them was designed to save in the form of savings. sees a greater increase in industrial production costs, production will already be increasing by 26.7%.
The second presentation on the topic of sustainability financing was given by Dr. Luís Laginha de Sousa, Member of the Board of Directors of Banco de Portugal.
Once again, it was left that the circular economy is a strategic concept between increasing economic growth, increasing waste production from resource consumption. However, for this concept to be possible, there must be an involvement of the different value chains, academia, associations, governments of all consumers, so that they work towards a material-free economy, because everything is considered a resource. .