- Sustainable PDL
URBAN WASTE is a European project funded by the 2020 Horizon program which aims to present proposals to policy-makers for the development of eco-innovative policies and the development of strategies to address the challenges posed by tourism in the management and production of urban waste. The project will develop original eco-innovative and gender-sensitive strategies as well as good practices aimed at reducing waste production and supporting waste reuse, recycling, collection and disposal in cities with high levels of tourism.
The three measures chosen for implementation in the partner companies of the project in Ponta Delgada are the selective collection of biological waste from restaurants and hotels, the replacement of disposable products in restaurants and hotels, the implementation of instructions on the separation of waste in foreign languages, waste separation in hotel rooms, brief tutorials or recycling consultants for tourist establishments, and promotion of tap water use.