Together with the collaboration and commitment of the teachers, it aims to promote the following in schools:

• Students who are interested and motivated to conserve the Environment, thus helping to form an awareness in relation to the global Environment;

• Acquiring information regarding the Environment, specifically in the area of solid urban wastes;

• Attitudes in line with Environmental conservation; creating values for protecting the Environment;

• Acquiring suitable capacities by developing concrete activities.

For further information about this Programme, visit the Zeca site on the Net or contact us.

Responding to environmental needs, safeguarding resources and reducing wastes to be eliminated, are all a part of environmental education, which like other areas of civil education, must be meaningful to the youth, within the perspective of actively intervening in the environment.

Within the aim of continuity, the School to School Pro-Environment follows the "A Clean Lisbon has a different Appearance!", Programme. One hopes to create the foundations leading to a generation sustained by the principles of a new relation between man and the environment.

The "School to School Pro-Environment" hopes to encourage the development of projects of the 2nd and 3rd cycle schools in the Solid Urban Wastes area, namely in that pertaining to hygiene in public areas and the three R policy: "Reduce, Re-use and Recycle". In this way one hopes to reach the interests and motivations of teachers and students, as well as allow for co-ordination with the school syllabus.

The use of new communication technologies, namely those afforded by the Internet, is recognised as being essential in the training of tomorrow's citizens.

 With the objective of motivating the use of study, research and exchange of information potential that the Internet makes possible among the school communities, the Ministry of Science and Technology is equipping all the schools in the country with computers with access to the Network.

Hoping to contribute towards this objective, the "A Clean Lisbon has a different Appearance!" Programme is on the Internet at the Zeca on the Net Site. This page takes note of the activities developed by students and schools within the scope of Environmental Education and shows some of their works. Ideas on "Reducing, Re-using and Recycling", cleaning and conserving the urban environment, exchanging/swapping opinions on the Environment and even some games are also present on Zeca the Great Cleaner's Page.

In this way the "A Clean Lisbon has a different Appearance!" Programme hopes to go even further, contributing towards an environmental awareness, in other words "Think Globally, Act Locally!".

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The educating process has values that cannot only be restricted to acquiring technical knowledge at school desks.

Ever-increasingly, the transmission and internalisation of norms and behaviour of an eminently civic sense are demanded, and these are also the interactive object of the global learning process.

By means of the A Clean Lisbon has a different Appearance programme, developed in all primary schools of the Official Primary Education, over the last five years we have tried to provide teachers and students with information related to the problems of solid urban wastes, reducing, re-using and recycling materials and, in a general manner, about correct behaviour to be adopted in conserving nature and the quality of urban life.

A training and testing atelier, associated to a Cleaning Museum, that provides youngsters with updated information in the areas mentioned, takes note of the development of equipment used in cleaning and removal/disposal of wastes and makes practical testing in areas such as recycling and re-using materials makes up the necessary complement necessary for the environmental education programmes in the solid wastes area in progress at primary schools of the Official Primary Education.

Thus, the Cleaning Museum Atelier hopes to collaborate in the education process, by means of tools which aid competency for the action. In this way, it will be possible to render concrete an integrated training of citizens participating in the construction of a quality environment.

To be installed in the space next to the Boa-Hora cleaning post, the Cleaning Museum Atelier is contemplating a group of activity areas (room for permanent and temporary exposition, Journey Inside Waste, ateliers - paper and glass recycling, re-using materials, training, documentation centre) which will make possible the diversification of the public, an enrichment in the sharing of experiences.

Local Community Intervention

Changing the waste removal system in the historical areas of Lisbon

The old areas of Lisbon have very specific urban characteristics, be it at the level of buildings or in terms of the people living there. The hermetic containers for solid waste removal in Lisbon (in 1979) did not obtain very positive results in terms of that expected in the area of maintaining the streets clean. The layout of the roads - winding and very narrow -, buildings with very small common areas to hold the containers, the elderly population living there are some of the factors that led the Department of Urban Hygiene and Solid Waste to create a removal system suited to the urban and social structure of these communities.

Aware of the specific characteristics of each community, this evaluation has been made according to each case, requiring specific solutions.

This new system for depositing and removing domestic wastes has been implemented at the Castle, Alfama, Bica and in restricted areas of the parishes of São Vicente, São José and Coração de Jesus.

There is a common intervention method where one seeks to integrate technically suitable solutions to the level of solid urban wastes removal, with the characteristics of urban structure and residing community, the motivation of local organisations to participate and developing actions which seek to surpass the awareness level to reach environmental education.

In this way, one hopes to contribute to the generalisation of environmentally- friendly behaviour and to a greater environmental awareness.

Each neighbourhood building its environment

This is an Environmental Awareness Project within the scope of solid urban wastes and is aimed at families living in welfare neighbourhoods.

 The actions developed are based on local partnerships and are planned according to the characteristics of each neighbourhood. Actions linked to the following are put into practice: registering and licensing dogs, information/training actions aimed at shop owners/traders and re-use ateliers.

Door-to-door

Janitors can potentially transmit/circulate the municipality's activity of managing solid urban wastes to condominiums. Transmitting good practices in matters related to urban hygiene and cleaning and conserving resources close to this public strengthens information and awareness projects set in motion by the municipality.