Informação: Government of the Azores has strategy to reduce waste production and increase its reuse
The Regional Director for the Environment stated today that the Government of the Azores has an ongoing sustainability strategy based on a series of initiatives aimed at the reduction of waste production and reuse of waste, some of which are underway while others will be implemented shortly. Hernâni Jorge spoke in Porto Formoso during a debate on "Waste and Circular Economy," an initiative h... Mais >>

Informação: Azores have 70 bathing waters approved for 2017
The ordinance approving the official list containing bathing and coastal waters of the Azores for 2017 and the respective bathing seasons was published today in the Official Journal. The archipelago has a total of 70 approved bathing water. The start of the bathing season, depending on the zone, occurs between June 1 and July 1 and ends between August 1 and October 14. The island of São M... Mais >>

Informação: Waste Week with 126 awareness-raising actions on all islands
The Government of the Azores, through the Regional Directorate for the Environment, promotes the 7th Azores Waste Week between November 19 and 27 as part of the European Week for Waste Reduction. This initiative includes actions organised by public and private entities on all islands with the aim of raising awareness and inform people on proper waste management at island level. Moreover, they are ... Mais >>

Informação: Government of the Azores presents plan to reduce waste production in the Region
The Regional Secretary for Agriculture and the Environment stated today in Ponta Delgada that the Waste Management Strategic Plan of the Azores (PEPGRA) has awarded priority status to the reduction of waste production and the increase of the reuse of waste. "From the standpoint of waste management, citizens and institutions should be guided, in the first instance, by the need to reduce the produ... Mais >>

Informação: Vasco Cordeiro opens Waste Processing Centre on São Jorge as part of the sustainable development strategy for the Azores
The President of the Government opened the São Jorge Waste Processing Centre. The six-million investment will minimise the environmental impact of waste on the island, contribute to its recovery and create six direct and permanent jobs. "The integrated management of waste is one of the main pillars of the Region's sustainable development strategy as well as of the public environmental polic... Mais >>

Informação: Luís Costa highlights importance of environmental education because "we are just protecting what we know"
The Regional Director for Fisheries stressed today on Faial the importance of environmental education activities, considering that they "allow citizens in general to identify themselves with the natural world that surrounds them." "We are just protecting what we know", said Luís Costa, who spoke at the hoisting ceremony of the Blue Flag on Porto Pim beach in the city of Horta. Apart from th... Mais >>

Informação: Vasco Cordeiro wants the Azores to become national reference in sea-related sectors
The President of the Government defended today that the region has the conditions to become a national reference, within a decade, in three sea-related sectors: nautical tourism, commercial exploitation of marine resources and the balance between environmental policies and economic potentialities. "We have the potential and conditions to, within a decade, transform the Azores in a reference Regi... Mais >>

Informação: Public consultation on beach areas in the Azores available until the end of January
The Regional Secretariat for Natural Resources, through the Regional Directorate for Sea Affairs (DRAM), has released the list of Bathing Areas in the Azores for 2013 for public consultation until January 31, providing citizens with the possibility of expressing their opinion on this matter. The proposal now presented, which registers no changes compared to the final version of 2012, is the resu... Mais >>

Informação: Regional Government, EDA and MIT-Portugal "connect" Corvo island to solar energy
The houses and public buildings on the island of Corvo are being equipped with solar panels and heat pumps. This one million Euro investment is being carried out by the Government with the "know how" of Azorean electricity company EDA and Green Islands Consortium, one of the main research programmes of MIT-Portugal programme. The first phase of the installation of solar panels is almost complete... Mais >>

Informação: Azores comply with regional information report on urban waste
The statistics on waste production and management in the Azores have been reported to the Azores Regional Statistics Service (SREA) through a protocol between the Regional Directorate for the Environment and the national statistics agency. The SREA is the main statistical agency in the Region and the delegation of the National Statistics Institute (INE) The information collected by the Regional ... Mais >>