Plataforma colaborativa para el mapeo de puntos críticos de residuos sólidos en Bogotá- Bogtrash

Abstract

Solid waste management is one of the biggest challenges facing a city like Bogotá with 8,08 million of population and more than 2.600 tons of solid waste generated a day. Lack of civic culture and environmental awareness regards to waste causes diverse and complex issues. One of them is the creation of waste critical points. The city spends more than 7,38 million $USD a year to clean these points and 6,15 million $USD to clean waste from the sewer system. Waste critical points are places -normally public places, streets, parks or abandoned lots- where solid waste is thrown illegally causing multiple harms as landscape deterioration, bad odors, spreading of plagues, water pollution, blockages of sewerage systems due to direct dumping or air and rain drag, diseases, and other repercussions. Bogtrash is a collaborative mobile and web platform that connects citizens, institutions and garbage collection companies to identify, characterize, and georeference waste solid critical points in Bogotá in order to get better waste management, citizen control, and encourages a joint search of solutions to this problem.