Last weekend's mysterious fire that, happily for the Algarve’s waste company freed up scarce landfill space by buring tonnes of dumped rubbish, is under the spotlight from environmental organisation, Almargem, which has demanded an independent inquiry.
The Sotavento Sanitary Landfill run by Algar is located in Vale do Zebro near Cortelha in Loulé, and "had a 20-year shelf life at the time of its inauguration in the year 2000. The increase in the volume of waste deposited, due in part to the unexpected and recent increase in the percentage of recyclable waste into the common waste, has led to its current depletion." (i.e lack of available space).