Last updated · 16 February 2024

Recycling

It is true this endeavor may not grab you with eggcitement, but with very little effort, we can improve the way we operate in a more responsibilly.

You'll notice your desk bins are paired with sexy-looking bags, fancily tagged with neatly designed labels. Let's put them to good use, shall we?

Nanda, our cleaner, will be depositing the recycling appropriately on a regular basis. We have no eggscuse.

Use these two basic rules to get it right.

• Recycle clean bottles, cans and packaging, paper and cardboard.

• Keep food and liquids out of recycling, including glass bottles.

Green, where G stands for Glass.

For all your clean Super Bock bottles. Please don't throw beery bottles in.

Yellow for plastic and metal.

Your Coke cans, your crappy plastic packaging and clean Compal cartons.

Blue, the one for paper and cardboard.

For all your Curb bags and non-dirty burger boxes (the greasy wrapping paper can't be recycled).

For further clarification, here's a neat image:

Batteries and e-waste.

We've got a battery bin in the office, but you are also free to bring in any batteries from home that you're not sure what to do with. We'll take care of that and ensure they are suitably disposed of in a specialised battery bin. Our battery bin is in the upstairs office.

For any old hardware that may have seen better days, let us know, and we will dispose of it properly or, most likely, exchange it with Fnac.

What can not be recycled?

Can! Get the pun?

• Food waste.

• Paper towels.

• Food-soiled items (such as used paper plates or greasy pizza boxes or paper napkins).

• Ceramics and kitchenware.

• Windows and mirrors.

• Plastic wrapping.

• Bubble wrap.

• Photographs.

• Medical waste.

• Polystyrene or styrofoam.

• Printer Ink cartridges.

• Hazardous chemicals and chemical containers.

• Plastic toys or sporting goods equipment.

• Wood.

• Light bulbs.

Useful Resources.

Unsure which bin to use for something?

Visit Waste App.

Visit Sociedade Ponte Verde.

Information on recycling corks.

Visit Quercus .

Portuguese environment agency.

Visit APAmbiente.

Portuguese Confederation of Environmental Defence Associations.

Visit CPADA.