Apoyo a la Fundación Humedales Bogotá para el desarrollo y exposición de estrategias técnicas que mejoren la gestión de los residuos posconsumo a través de la web

Abstract

In recent decades the Ministry of Environment has worked on the development of extended liability programs seeking to prevent post-consumer waste from being managed with domestic waste as they consequently lose their recovery potential and take advantage. According to a study conducted by the DANE, only 44% of households in Colombia classify their waste and 7 out of 10 people do not know how to make a correct separation, this ends in the wrong disposal of the different post-consumer waste which leads to what inevitably are disposed in landfills, generated an accelerated decrease in their useful life. (DPN, 2016). This internship was developed with the aim of proposing technical strategies to improve the management of post-consumer waste and that they reach consumers easily, therefore a bibliographic review was initially conducted focusing on four key features: current regulations, waste generation in the country, composition and the management that each one has today, this allowed identifying the main problems that must be faced to improve waste management, in order to delimit them were classified into three transversal axes: environmental, social and political in order to establish their origin and propose strategies that are not only effective but efficient in resolving them. The proposed strategies are proposed for the social component because it was identified that the final consumer depends on the correct separation and storage of waste thus ensuring their reintegration into the economic cycle or otherwise they have a correct provision without negative impacts on ecosystems; It also follows the character of the foundation Wetlands of Bogota highlighted for promoting participatory environmental management to the community because of this a didactic exhibition of the information collected, an environmental directory with collection points in the city of Bogota, additionally designed an outline for the website that will link to the foundation’s website in order to achieve a massive dissemination of information on the proper management of post-consumer waste, highlighting its importance, environmental impact and the responsibility of the final consumer in the chain of making use of them. Finally, we present an analysis of positive consequences for the strategies proposed in order to determine their functionality.