Alentejo coast waste firm Ambilital spends €48m to cut landfill and lift recycling

Ambilital, which handles waste for seven municipalities on the Alentejo coast, has invested over €48m in recent years and plans roughly €50m in total through 2027. A new sorting plant has cut losses of collected recyclables from 40–50% to about 5%, and landfill share fell from 100% until 2022 to 41% in 2025, with 35% targeted next. Compost output rose 56% to 5,000 tonnes. New EU counting rules now favour separately collected food and garden waste, which most municipalities do not yet gather widely, so closer work with councils will be needed to meet targets.