bassett's visit that will leave for environmental activist antonino pyrrhus giving permits to trash dumps next to residential areas is inconceivable but he also criticizes the garbage imports from abroad which have been increasing for years portugal may have doubled the fee for a ton of ways from 11 to 22 year olds last month but for many people that still much too cheap. to keep if it costs about 20 year olds to store garbage here but in other e.u. states it's about 100 euros then everyone wants to send their garbage to us. portugal's recycling system is also a weak point that draws criticism even though it's supposed to be a large part of the waste is not get recycled instead it ends up on garbage dumps or in one of more trickles to incinerator plants. presently portugal recycles more or less 22 percent of its municipal waste from our household and we have to achieve a target in 5 years 55 percent of course we don't expect to achieve that target portugal's policy on solid waste urgently needs to catch up the government has temporarily stopped garbage imports from other states until the