Name
LIPOR's Circular Business Model
website
country
Portugal
Goal
The LIPOR (Intermunicipal Waste Management Service of Greater Porto) integrates a Circular Economy approach and has "developed an integrated management strategy based on four key components: Multimaterial Recovery, Organic Recovery, and Energy Recovery, supported by a Landfill Site to receive the waste from processes and from previously prepared waste.". It also develops other services and projects, including but not limited to preserving biodiversity and rewilding, promoting safe and sustainable food, among others.
LIPOR has also been actively involved in local, regional, nacional and international initiatives that contribute to legislative, industry and business practices, as well as in Environmental Education in schools and communities.
Main Topic
Responsible and circular economy: mobilizing industry for a clean and circular economy
All Topics
Responsible and circular economy: mobilizing industry for a clean and circular economy
Sustainable food: from "farm to fork": a fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food system
Biodiversity: preserving and restoring ecosystems and biodiversity
Increasing the EU's climate policy ambition for 2030 and 2050
Zero pollution ambition for a toxic-free environment
Financing the transition (i.e. it facilitates and/or stimulates public and private investments needed for the transition to a climate-neutral, green, competitive and inclusive economy)
Fostering a just transition: leaving no one behind (fostering i.e. inclusivity, equity, empowerment of marginalized communities or other goals regarding justice)
Scale
- Regional (e.g. a province, including multiple cities)
Actors
- For-profit company
- Regional government
Main Activity
Designing policies and/or (management) strategies
Activities
- Not specified
Source
This initiative was provided by the SGD consortium.
This initiative is self-reported and not identified by the SHARED GREEN DEAL Consortium
CONTACT
For further details please contact co-leads Dr Chris Foulds (chris.foulds@aru.ac.uk) and Dr Rosie Robison (rosie.robison@aru.ac.uk).
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 101036640. The sole responsibility for the content of this website lies with the SHARED GREEN DEAL HAS project and does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the European Union.