As a result of the former, several decisions were enforced under the banner of environmental recuperation of the city, from new engagements with environmental organisations to the implementation of 'selective collection' of rubbish in the city; from participatory meetings to implement a new environmental plan for Porto Alegre to the publication of the extraordinary Atlas Ambiental de Porto Alegre, a state-of-the-art detailed description and analysis of the 'environmental history' of Porto Alegre, first published in 1998.