Recycling good deeds worth up to €5,000

Have you already mobilized your building mates to separate the used packaging? Organized a beach cleanup movement? Reconstructed a public space from recycled material? It is time to apply for these and other exemplary actions for the Junta-te ao Gervasio national award. Sociedade Ponto Verde launched this competition to invite citizens, neighborhood organizations and parish councils to submit projects designed and implemented in the field of packaging recycling and recycling.

Register and win prizes

Applications are ongoing exclusively online until July 31st. The best initiatives, products or services with verifiable results that have a significant impact on the improvement and separation of packaging, as well as the improvement of the circular economy in their community, can win prizes up to 5,000 euros – in the case of citizens and organizations. The parish councils will be presented with a sculpture made from recycled materials for installation in their locality of the first classification and nine honorary awards.

Orem Mayor Luis Albuquerque rewarded the good initiatives of the county’s schools.

Haven’t developed and implemented a project yet? Start now. “Now we are entering the summer season, when there will be more parties, more concerts and more festivals. This is a unique opportunity to develop packaging recovery initiatives from the north to the south of the country,” cheers Teresa Cortés, Marketing and Communications Coordinator of the Ponto Verde Society. Try, for example, setting up waste collection points on foot or organizing house-to-house collection of used packaging. There will be no shortage of good ideas that Gervasio can be proud of.

Recycling life in Portugal

The chimpanzee Gervasio, who taught the Portuguese to separate paper, plastic and glass, returns more than twenty years later to show the best practices of local communities from the north to the south of the country with Manhã CM on CMTV. The program visited live the municipalities of Caldas da Rainha, Portimão, Ourén and Seixal to inspire more and more people to join the mission of innovation, development and recycling. Hosts Duarte Siopa and Ágata Rodrigues got to know Portuguese companies with sustainable values ​​and the different practices of sharing and forwarding packaging from these different cities.

The Manhã CM program took place in Portimão.

From coastal clean-up actions in Portimão to the selective collection of biowaste in Ourem, not to mention the trash cans made from 100% recycled plastic from Seixal and plastic reduction projects in Caldas da Rainha, there are many role models to follow in the context of packaging recycling that you can bring to your communities. Heading north, Manhã CM’s next special will be live from Maya on July 7th and 8th and live from Vila Real on July 21st and 22nd. Join Gervásio and inspire Portugal!