Intervention Project
Academia Lixo Zero (Zero Waste Academy)
The project
Considering the global threats to the environment, it is urgent to act and act consistently, sowing knowledge, values and awareness of shared responsibility with regard to guaranteeing quality of life for future generations. The Academy invites everyone to take a positive ecological footprint in their personal and collective journeys, and to create bridges of cooperation among themselves. It is intended to implement and disseminate Zero Waste practices, preparing and promoting the transition of the School and Community in this process.
Academia Lixo Zero is a project of community transformation based on education, taking the School and its varied pedagogical processes, as a fundamental pillar for irradiation of change. It seeks to value the relational contact between people, from formal education, to the informal exchange of experiences, or sharing and learning within the community, family, with neighbors, between cultures or in intergenerational interaction. It is in the sharing and approach of the community, creating collaborative interaction networks, that ways of solving common problems are identified. Problems that affect us all must be solved together. The threats that today appear to us as eminent and have a great negative impact on the quality of all life, are the result of decades of disconnection, exploration and consumption without any notion of interdependence of ecosystems.
Continuing to invest in community-based Zero Waste solutions that have a great impact on the quality of life of the community, tested by sectors and with potential for replication on a city scale.
This is a project promoted by Zero Waste Lab in partnership with the Association of Parents and Educators of Escola Maria Barroso and the Grouping of Schools Passos Manuel, with the support of the BIPZIP Program of the Municipality of Lisbon.
