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Ana Luísa Guimarães stresses the urgency of effective measures to avoid the imminent exhaustion of landfills in Portugal | Jornal Água&Ambiente
Partner of Public and Regulated Sectors, Ana Luísa Guimarães, advocated the establishment of a swifter licensing regime and direct state intervention to enable new infrastructures, in an interview with Jornal Água&Ambiente, at the 18th Waste Forum.
Ana Luísa Guimarães highlighted the need to combine long-term solutions with immediate measures, noting that it is “essential to licence new landfills soon, overcome administrative barriers and tender key infrastructures, avoiding the export of waste to Spain”, in an interview with Jornal Água&Ambiente, following her participation as a speaker at the 18th Waste Forum, on the panel ‘Avoiding landfill exhaustion’.
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