LIPOR’s Energy Recovery Plant Celebrates 25 Years

In the past 25 years, LIPOR’s associated municipalities have generated over 10.3 million tons of waste.
To accommodate this amount of waste, thousands of hectares of land would have been required for landfilling - wasting valuable resources with no benefit.

LIPOR is the entity responsible for the management, recovery and treatment of urban waste produced by the associated Municipalities: Espinho, Gondomar, Maia, Matosinhos, Porto, Póvoa de Varzim, Valongo and Vila do Conde.

LIPOR annually treats about 500 thousand tons of urban waste produced by 1 million inhabitants. Based on modern urban waste management concepts, LIPOR has developed an integrated strategy for the recovery, treatment and confinement of urban waste, based on three main components: Multimaterial Recovery, Organic Recovery and Energy Recovery, complemented by a Sanitary Landfill for receiving the discards and previously prepared waste.