{"id":3829,"date":"2026-10-23T15:57:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T15:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sustainableforall.visitmadeira.com\/schools-in-madeira-collected-seven-tons-of-electronic-waste\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T15:59:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T15:59:44","slug":"schools-in-madeira-collected-seven-tons-of-electronic-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainableforall.visitmadeira.com\/en\/schools-in-madeira-collected-seven-tons-of-electronic-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"Schools in Madeira collected seven tons of electronic waste"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the 2025\/2026 school year, as part of the Escola Electr\u00e3o campaign, a project that promotes recycling and environmental education in schools, encouraging students, teachers, and families to adopt more sustainable behaviors and contribute to environmental protection, 11 schools in Madeira collectively collected over 7.6 tons of electrical and electronic waste, which was sent for recycling.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The collected waste included 5,367 kg of electrical equipment, 1,698 kg of batteries, and 539 kg of lamps. For their performance, the participating schools will receive 2,100 euros in prizes, in the form of gift vouchers for purchasing electrical equipment. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Escola B\u00e1sica da Lourencinha stood out by winning the largest regional prize, worth 1,125 euros, and also won in the 1st cycle category of the Rep\u00f3rter Electr\u00e3o contest, dedicated to recycling packaging.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the national level, the campaign involved 720 schools and managed to collect over 515 tons of waste, a 12% increase compared to the previous edition.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Find out more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dnoticias.pt\/2026\/8\/13\/502292-escolas-da-madeira-recolheram-sete-toneladas-de-residuos-electricos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the 2025\/2026 school year, as part of the Escola Electr\u00e3o campaign, a project that promotes recycling and environmental education in schools, encouraging students, teachers, and families to adopt more sustainable behaviors and contribute to environmental protection, 11 schools in Madeira collectively collected over 7.6 tons of electrical and electronic waste, which was sent for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,112],"tags":[512,510,511],"class_list":["post-3829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-environmental-area","tag-recycling","tag-electronic-waste","tag-escola-electrao"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainableforall.visitmadeira.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainableforall.visitmadeira.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainableforall.visitmadeira.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainableforall.visitmadeira.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainableforall.visitmadeira.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sustainableforall.visitmadeira.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3830,"href":"https:\/\/sustainableforall.visitmadeira.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3829\/revisions\/3830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainableforall.visitmadeira.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainableforall.visitmadeira.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainableforall.visitmadeira.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainableforall.visitmadeira.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}