iREC – Innovating Recycling

About this project

<p>The project will engage the 200 000 Cascais inhabitants, as well as the over 1 500 000 yearly tourists and visitors. The project aims to address the low levels of recycling in Portugal through an innovative approach of management of single-use containers, bringing together, towards that end, an experienced team of retailers, collection services, research centers and companies in the waste sector. To this purpose, will be implemented a pilot scheme for the introduction incentives to recycling. The incentive scheme will be based on a "gamification" system, making use of applications which award users for depositing plastic and glass beverage containers and aluminium cans in RVMs with "city points".</p>

Project partners

• New University of Lisbon Project partner· Portugal