‘Bye bye asbestos’: Funding finally on way to remove asbestos from Algarve schools
Funding is finally on the way to remove asbestos – the potentially harmful building component still found in many buildings across the country – from 31 schools in the Algarve.
Portugal unashamedly buries asbestos from Nigeria and Oman in mainland’s landfill sites
Portugal is unashamedly burying toxic refuse imported from countries like Nigeria and Oman in its mainland landfill sites. With the country’s focus on the pandemic, very little in terms of
Asbestos removed from 31 Algarve schools
Asbestos – the potentially harmful building component still found in many buildings across the country – will be removed from 31 schools in 13 Algarve boroughs, announced the government. Minister
Complaint over Portugal’s refusal to honour asbestos directive scheduled for delivery to EU
Fenprof, FAPAS (the fund for the protection of wild animals), MESA (the movement for schools without asbestos) and environmental NGOs Quercus and Associação Zero are ready to deliver a complaint
Asbestos related deaths in Portugal reach 126 in four years
Asbestos related deaths in Portugal have reached 126 in four years. As experts agree, it’s nothing when compared to deaths caused by cancers, but as asbestos issues takes years to
Patients and staff at two Lisbon hospitals “at elevated risk” due to exposure to degraded asbestos
Patients and staff at two Lisbon hospitals are at elevated risk due to exposure to degraded asbestos. This is the warning from ‘specialist’ Rui Silva following analysis of ‘various photographs
Asbestos angst: parents take fight to Brussels as Quercus stresses “it is 50 times cheaper to remove asbestos from schools than treat diseases it provokes”
Asbestos angst continues up and down the country, despite a government pledge to remove the potentially harmful building component from schools and public buildings. Say reports, asbestos is still in