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Valorization of biowaste: innovative solutions for a more sustainable future

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Biowaste, often overlooked as a resource, has great potential for recovery, constituting a valuable resource as a raw material. Generated in households, restaurants and other sectors, biowaste includes food scraps, garden waste and other biodegradable materials. With the global increase in the levels of waste generated by society, the appropriate recovery of biowaste is a key strategy for municipalities to achieve their environmental goals.

Why biowaste is important

Biowaste makes up a significant proportion of municipal waste. Improper disposal of this waste, particularly in landfills, leads to very negative consequences, such as methane emissions – a greenhouse gas that has been shown to contribute to climate change. However, when managed correctly, biowaste becomes a valuable resource, and can be converted into compost to enrich soils, biogas for renewable energy or bio-based products, promoting a circular economy where waste is minimised and resources are continually reused.

In Europe, biowaste recycling has taken centre stage due to stringent regulatory frameworks, such as the revised Landfill Directive EU 2018/850, which stipulates that no more than 10% of municipal waste may be landfilled by 2030. Municipalities are now tasked with upgrading their waste management systems to ensure that biowaste is separated, collected and treated efficiently. This is where innovation plays a critical role.

How Lasso supports municipalities in their biowaste management

At Lasso, we are proud to have been contributing to the sustainability of municipalities and communities for over 30 years, with innovative solutions adapted to modern waste management challenges. Our Lasso’s underground and semi-underground containers – such as Semi PE, Semi BT, Green Bee, Red Bee and the latest hydraulic systems – provide an efficient and sustainable system for the collection of biowaste and other recyclable waste, providing municipalities with the means to reach their recycling targets more quickly.

Advantages of Lasso underground and semi-underground containers:

1. More efficient: with a capacity of 5m³, 3m³ or 1.5m³, they are designed to collect large volumes of waste, helping to reduce the frequency of collection trips, which reduces operating costs and carbon emissions.

2. More hygiene: by storing waste underground, Lasso underground containers reduce odours and pests, creating cleaner and healthier urban spaces.

3. More available public space: compact and discreet, Lasso containers occupy a limited space in the urban landscape, with a pleasant visual aesthetic.

4. Smart management: Lasso containers can be equipped with smart technology, for monitoring fill levels and access control, which provides real-time data to optimise collection trip schedules and ensure waste is managed more effectively.

Given their ease of access and functionality, Lasso containers not only simplify the waste disposal process for citizens, they also encourage communities to adopt more sustainable habits.

Lasso is a partner to municipalities, continually developing waste collection solutions adapted to the specific needs of each community. By prioritizing the separation of bio-waste, cities and towns can improve their recycling rates, reduce landfill waste and comply with environmental directives. Lasso’s products are at their side, bringing with them all the know-how and experience of a company with over 30 years of experience.

 

 

Vilnius selects Green Bee underground waste containers

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The city of Vilnius, in Lithuania, adopted Lasso’s Green Bee underground waste containers to reinforce selective waste collection. Following the brand’s expansion efforts into Eastern European countries, this is yet another important market in Eastern countries opting for Lasso’s underground containers to support their sustainability goals.

The Green Bee underground containers installed in Vilnius, show a stainless steel column, and have a capacity of 5m³ for collecting mixed waste, plastic and packaging and paper and cardboard, and 3m³ for glass collection. The choice for this model is precisely due to its large capacity for collecting waste and its storage underground, which reduces the number of collection trips and also ensures greater hygiene in the urban space, in addition to its design and aesthetic appearance, pleasing to the eye and harmoniously integrated into the surrounding landscape.

Also noteworthy is the pedal detail for greater comfort in use and the personalized signage for that municipality.

LASSO underground containers: innovation and efficiency in waste collection

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In today’s cities, optimizing urban space while maintaining a pleasant aesthetic is a constant challenge, especially when it comes to waste management. Lasso’s underground waste containers, manufactured by Sopsa, emerged as an innovative solution, offering a perfect balance between functionality, design and care for the environment. Lasso solutions – such as the Green Bee underground containers (see photo) – are designed for perfect integration into the urban landscape, providing efficient waste collection and minimizing visual impact.

Green Bee underground containers occupy minimal surface space, with the majority of their structure and storage capacity installed below ground. At street level, only a small, elegant column is visible, designed with a modern aesthetic that adapts to both historic centers and newly developed urban areas. Easy to access and user-friendly, the Green Bee recycling bank can be equipped with five containers for different types of waste: mixed waste, glass, plastic and metal, paper and cardboard, and bio-waste.

With a discreet appearance, Lasso underground containers offer a large capacity for storing waste below ground, which allows for less frequent collection trips, contributing to a cleaner and less polluted urban environment. Storing waste underground also means that waste is stored at a lower temperature, minimizing unpleasant odors and creating a more hygienic solution for areas that are typically densely populated.

On the other hand, the design of Lasso’s Green Bee underground containers emphasizes efficiency not only in waste collection, but also in its maintenance, as with fewer elements visible above the ground and manufactured with resistant materials, they are less likely to damage from vandalism or accidents, reducing long-term maintenance costs for municipalities.

Smart solutions for waste management

At a time when technology is revolutionizing every facet of urban life, Lasso containers are also prepared for the digital transition of cities, particularly for intelligent waste management. Containers – whether Green Bee or others – can be equipped with intelligent waste management systems, particularly for access control or monitoring of filling levels, which improve their functionality and efficiency. The optimization of containers with these systems allows the adoption of PAYT (Pay-As-You-Throw) pricing, as well as reducing fuel consumption, reducing emissions from waste collection vehicles and operating costs, which makes these systems a highly sustainable solution.

As cities grow and evolve, solutions like Lasso’s Green Bee underground containers will play a critical role in shaping urban environments that are not only efficient and sustainable, but also aesthetically pleasing. Enabling a cleaner, more ecological approach to intelligent waste management, Lasso’s containers help municipalities face the challenges of modern urban life without compromising the beauty and functionality of their public spaces.

Lasso semi-underground containers installed in Val de Drôme

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Lasso has supplied around 70 new semi-underground containers for waste collection in the community of Val de Drôme, in the Auvergne Rhône-Alpes region, in France. In a region with an essentially agricultural and rural landscape, the new Lasso Semi PE containers offer a large storage capacity for all types of waste, reducing collection trips and offering a more sustainable solution.

In a project developed in collaboration with Contenur, Lasso’s distributor for the French market, recycling banks were installed made up of 5m³ semi-underground polyethylene containers, with “Imitation Wood” recycled plastic finishing.

Regarding its technical characteristics and configurations, the container for mixed waste has a modular lid with a simple drum, with bag and Quick System extraction system; for packaging and paper, a solution was selected with a modular lid and small lid, bag and Quick System extraction system; and, for glass, the option was also the modular lid with a small lid, but here with a metal tank, better adapted to this type of waste, with a single hook extraction system.

“The configuration solutions for Lasso semi-underground containers are quite diverse, from the openings, to the tank and the extraction system, and allow adaptation to the needs of each community, this versatility being one of its great advantages. They are also containers that ensure a perfect fit into the environment and support the sustainability strategies of municipalities”, says Sofia Sampaio, Lasso’s commercial director for the international market.

Sopsa participates at the VI ENLU

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Between the 25th and 27th of September, Sopsa will be participating in the 6th National Urban Cleaning Meeting (ENLU), which will be held in Funchal, Madeira Island. This is an annual event organised by the Urban Cleaning Association – Partnership for Smarter and More Sustainable Cities (ALU), which covers the topics of waste, urban cleaning and city management. The company could not be absent from this event, as it is one of the main national players in the area of ​​containerisation solutions for waste collection, with its Lasso brand, a leader in large-capacity underground and semi-underground containers.

This event will host several conferences and debates where the topics of urban cleaning and waste management will be highlighted and where innovative solutions and success stories from municipalities and companies will be presented. It will be a space for networking and knowledge sharing, which is essential in the sector.

New project in France with Lasso semi-underground containers

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Around 300 Lasso Semi PE urban waste collection containers are being installed as part of the SICTOM Velay Pilat project, in the Haute Loire region, in France. These are semi-underground polythene containers, with a metal well and Kinshofer lifting system, and with a modular lid with two openings. These are containers with “Wood” coating, with a capacity of 5m³ for mixed waste, packaging and paper collection, and 3m³, dedicated to glass collection.

Lasso Semi PE are large capacity half-underground containers, prepared for any type of waste, from mixed waste, paper, glass, packaging and bio-waste. Its large storage capacity installed underground avoids the problems of garbage overflow, optimizing urban cleaning and reducing environmental pollution.

The Intercommunity Union for the Collection and Treatment of Domestic Waste (SICTOM Velay Pilat), created in 1982 on the initiative of 13 municipalities in the Loire and Haute Loire, has its headquarters in Saint Just Malmont. With a staff of 31 agents and a fleet of 8 collection vehicles, it is responsible for waste management in 24 municipalities, representing more than 37 thousand inhabitants.

Lasso is looking for distributors worldwide

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Following the internationalization strategy of the lasso™ brand and the consequent installation of a production unit in Romania, Sopsa is currently recruiting distributors to represent its waste management solutions in several countries worldwide. The objective is to find companies that can contribute with their experience and market knowledge to expand the brand globally.

 lasso™ is a leading brand of underground containers for collecting urban waste. Designed for efficient waste management in the smart cities of the future, lasso™ containers allow harmonious integration with the environment and guarantee effective waste management, with great resource savings in the collection process.

“We intend to take our products to new markets through commercial agents or resellers who work in the sector and whose offer is complementary to ours, with the same quality positioning and a philosophy that prioritizes sustainability and environmental preservation”, says Pedro Martins Da Costa, CEO of Sopsa.

To be part of this project, companies must know the waste management market well, including experience in public tenders and funding within the scope of European support programs. They must be proactive companies, with entrepreneurial leaders, who wish to increase their portfolio with lasso™ underground containers for urban waste collection, with an exclusivity contract.

“We are a company with more than 30 years of experience and a professional and R&D team that offers responsiveness and full support to achieve sales objectives”, adds Pedro Martins da Costa.

If you want to be part of a multinational brand, leader in underground containerization solutions for urban waste, contact us:

Sofia Sampaio

Email: sms@sopsa.pt

Lasso Semi BT semi-underground containers head to the French Basque Country

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This June, Lasso Semi BT semi-underground containers began to be shipped to the Communauté d’Agglomération Pays Basque, in France. There are 200 large capacity semi-underground containers (5m³), with modular lids, which, in a first phase, will begin to be installed in the areas of Garrazi Baigorri, Garrazi Hasparren, Sud Pays Basque and Nive Adour.

The containers for collecting mixed waste are Lasso Semi BT with “Inerte Lioz” or “Wood Imitation” finish, with Kinshofer extraction system and PEHD modular lid with double drum, prepared for installation of an intelligent access control system.

For packaging and glass, there are also Semi BT containers, some with a “Inerte Lioz” finish, others with “Wood Imitation”, with a Kinshofer extraction system and PEHD modular lid with the particularity of having a vertical “Façade” opening.

“In collaboration with Contenur, our local distributor, we are supplying the containers for the waste management project in this community in the French Basque Country, which selected Lasso Semi BT containers to integrate the process of reorganizing its waste management with in order to comply with the separation and recycling targets required by the European Union. These large capacity containers are ideal for the needs of the region and adapt to the customer’s geographic requirements, whether in the most mountainous areas or on the coast”, says Sofia Sampaio, Lasso’s commercial director for the international market.

Sopsa achieves INOVADORA COTEC status once again

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Sopsa achieved the INOVADORA COTEC (COTEC INNOVATIVE) status for the fourth consecutive year, once again joining an exclusive group of small and medium-sized national companies that stand out for their continuous investment in innovation and their quality and management culture.

“We want to congratulate you on this important recognition. The exceptional performance of your company, its management and its teams is a reason for admiration and respect for us”, stated Jorge Portugal, general director of COTEC.

The COTEC INNOVATIVE status is awarded based on demanding criteria defined by the rating provided for in the regulation defined by COTEC and its partners in the banking sector, in particular financial solidity, investment in innovation capital and quality, essential ingredients to increase competitive potential and economic results.

“We are proud to continue at the forefront of innovation, the result of the daily work of our R+D team in the search for new solutions to satisfy the needs of our customers, with a constant concern for sustainability, improving competitive performance and the quality of our products and our lasso™ brand, work that has been recognized in several markets around the world”, highlights Pedro Martins da Costa, CEO of Sopsa Eco Innovation, SA.

Positive balance for Lasso in the biggest edition of IFAT ever

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Lasso’s participation in this year’s edition of IFAT, the largest international trade fair dedicated to sustainability, innovation and technologies for the environment, had a very positive outcome, exceeding all of the team’s expectations. “It was one of the most productive years at IFAT – our products were seen by buyers from all over the world who showed great interest in our solutions for urban waste collection”, says Sofia Sampaio, director of Lasso for the international market.

This was, in fact, the largest edition of IFAT ever, with a total of 300,000 square meters of exhibition and around 142,000 visitors, from 170 countries and regions around the world. For five days, Lasso team was dedicated to welcoming countless visitors to the brand’s stand where, in the setting of an imaginary forest, the lasso™ full-underground and semi-underground containers for urban waste collection were on display, as well as various accessories and intelligent systems, that respond to the sustainability challenges imposed on municipalities and citizens. lasso™ containers have caught the attention of several municipalities in Central and Eastern European countries, as well as in Northern Europe, some of which already have the presence of lasso™ containers in their cities and towns. The news came from Middle Eastern countries, such as Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates, where waste management is beginning to take on priority importance and where underground containers are beginning to be seen as a cutting-edge solution.

We thank everyone who visited us and we remain available to answer any questions and clarifications.

Contact us at geral@sopsa.pt