Modelo de gobernanza para el reciclaje inclusivo desde el marco de la economía circular. Estudio de caso: EMRS

Abstract

The generation of solid waste is a problem that most affects urban areas, having a direct relationship with population growth and mobilization of people to cities (Peng, 2017). Recycling is a solution to the problem generated by the poor handling and management of waste (Medina, 1999). The main function of the professional recycler is to apply the reuse of waste, using the concept of circular economy in the different activities of the human being (González & Vargas, 2017). In this exercise, they contribute to the process in such a way that they classify and collect the waste of an organization or an individual, accumulate it in their organizations to place it once again as a resource or raw material on the market. However, the importance of the work of recyclers is ignored (Benites, 2018). Being these marginal subjects of society, they are not recognized as public servants and key players in waste management systems (Villegas, 2017), their activities are exposed to risk factors that can threaten their physical, social and mental integrity. ; due to the increase in the supply of material, they have had to be more efficient in their collection capacity, having to generate greater union organization and cooperation. To involve recyclers as strategic actors in the framework of the circular economy for urban sustainability, it has been considered to design a governance model that allows the interrelation of the regulatory framework, the participation of professional recyclers and sustainability in the provision of waste. service in the city of Bogotá, taking as a case study the organization of recyclers EMRS ESP in the city of Bogotá from 2016 to 2021. For this reason, network governance is taken as a reference, which according to Bugge, Fevolden and Klitkou (2019), represents a systemic (Loorbach, 2010) and relational approach that allows innovation in the public sector, finding solutions through collaboration between sectors. For this process, it is necessary to know the social and individual reality of the recyclers within their waste utilization tasks and the collection of information data on waste classified and separated by them in the city of Bogotá. The methodology used in this research work is qualitative and quantitative; To identify the social reality of the recycler, the Grounded Theory was taken into account as an interpretative reference framework, the data was collected through field notes, interviews, photographs and recordings that allowed the generation of knowledge and the construction of an explanatory theory based on perception. and stakeholder participation. Additionally, a literature review was carried out on governance models for recycling in order to identify the different governance components that apply in the management of usable solid waste for the contribution of urban sustainability, through a citation index in different databases. Finally, the governance model was built through participatory methodologies, through inter-institutional tables between the organization of recyclers and state entities, depending on the users who will be the citizens.