Gestión de residuos no peligrosos para aprovechamiento económico de una organización de mujeres en la parroquia de Pomasqui - Quito

Abstract

This project establishes processes for the comprehensive and sustainable management of solid waste through associations, in order to promote recycling in the country, minimizing the environmental impact generated by poor disposal of waste, improving health and living conditions of the population. In the parish of Pomasqui, there are currently deficiencies in garbage collection, since the collectors do not reach all the neighborhoods of the parish, one cause of this is the exponential growth of the population. A group of people carry out the waste recovery activity on the sidewalk, in different neighborhoods and housing complexes, however, they carry it out in informal conditions, in the parish there are only 2 recyclable waste collection centers. Through the collection of information in the field on the amount of non-hazardous waste that can be recovered in the parish of Pomasqui, an economic analysis was carried out on the profitability of recovering this solid waste through the creation of a women's organization. Therefore, it was considered very important to develop an environmental education program for the housing community, since they represent a large percentage of waste generation compared to other commercial activities, households are the largest producers of this waste. Through the study carried out in the parish, information was obtained on the amount of solid waste that is generated and the percentage of these are: 8.39% corresponds to paper, 8.30 to cardboard, 8.50 to plastic bags, 17.98 to PET, 7.84 to blown plastic, 10.58 to hard plastic, 6.47 to Tetrapack and 31.95 to glass. Of these percentages, the economic value that stands out is PET since with that percentage, it is the one that provides the best economic return to the recycler because its monetary value is the highest compared to the rest of the waste.