Home Composting Project

We return to Earth what it gave us.

In partnership with our Associated Municipalities, we've promoted Terra à Terra (Give it Back to Earth) project, where we encourage the reduction of organic waste in houses, buildings and institutions in our area of operation, free of charge for all participants.

With this project, we aim to encourage the prevention of organic waste, treating it locally and thus reducing the process's environmental impact and improving the quality of life for the population.

We predict that the home composting process will allow us:

This project is developed by LIPOR in cooperation with the eight Associated Municipalities, and there are no costs for participants.

Compost bins per Municipality*:

ESPINHO - 413
GONDOMAR - 2887
MAIA - 2651
MATOSINHOS - 2062
PORTO - 2225
PÓVOA DE VARZIM - 1316
VALONGO - 1765
VILA DO CONDE - 2141

TOTAL - 15460

* as of March 2020

Home Composting

To take part in LIPOR's Home Composting project, participants must:

be aged 18 or above;
have land or a garden within the area of LIPOR (Espinho, Gondomar, Maia, Matosinhos, Porto, Póvoa de Varzim, Valongo and Vila do Conde);
take part in a home composting course (free);
observe the project regulations;
allow at least one monitoring visit (see how we carry out these visits here).

Community Composting

Don't have your own green area where you can compost but you'd like to promote Community Composting?

Invite your neighbors to share the same composting bin in true community spirit! Contact us and we'll raise awareness among all the residents on your street or in your building. Success is guaranteed!

For more information, please contact the project team:

Phone: (+351) 229 770 181

E-mail: info@lipor.pt