Apoyo a la implementación del plan de gestión integral de residuos sólidos (PGIRS), en la corporación de comerciantes plaza de mercado de Paloquemao enfocados en las rutas de recolección y sensibilización frente a la separación en la fuente

Abstract

The city of Bogota currently has 44 marketplaces, including private and public ones (Bustos, 2021); establishments that daily produce large amounts of solid waste, especially organic and inorganic waste, as a result of different of solid waste, especially organic and inorganic waste, as a result of the different activities they carry out. activities that are developed. It should be noted that organic wastes are wastes that are characterized by having a high percentage of organic and inorganic characterized by a high percentage of disintegration and transformation into organic matter (Mantra, 2014), used for composting and vermiculture processes, facilitating the reduction of waste volumes in marketplaces (Sanchez et al, 2008). For this reason, they are wastes that, if not handled properly, lead to the contamination of abiotic factors such as air, soil and water and ultimately affect people's health. In accordance with the above, the Paloquemao marketplace, one of the most important in the city since its operation as a corporation in 1979, located in the district of Los Mártires, and of private character, for more than 48 years it has offered to the people of Bogotá its services of supplying and commercializing of food and goods, offering a great variety of products such as fruits, vegetables, meat, dairy products, herbs, flowers and others (Plazadepaloquemao, s.f), being a wholesale market. To date, the plaza has an integrated solid waste management plan (PGRIS) that has allowed it to define a set of goals, strategies, programs, objectives, and projects that facilitate the the proper management of the solid waste that is generated daily by this place; COMERPAL has 9 collection routes that allow for the adequate separation of organic and ordinary waste; however, in recent years, there has been an increase in the accumulation of organic and ordinary waste, causing problems in social, economic and, above all, environmental, since this situation generates an increase in the number of contamination, the development of diseases, proliferation of vectors, production of offensive odors, among many others. It is for this reason that the main objective of the internship is to execute and support the strengthening of the integrated solid waste management plan in the Paloquemao marketplace traders' corporation, focused on the collection routes and awareness of separation at the source; since this seeks to define a new design of the collection routes where a selective collection route will be defined for the usable waste, identifying the productive activity that produces the most waste in the marketplace, selective collection route for usable waste, identifying the productive activity that generates the most waste within COMERPAL (large, medium and small), as well as to implement a new alternative for the use of certain types of waste, especially caps, and to sensitize merchants to the and to sensitize traders to the importance and application of separation at the source separation.