Formulación de medidas de manejo integral de residuos sólidos orgánicos urbanos en el municipio de Ubaté

Abstract

The development of the project focused on the formulation of strategies for the integral management of urban organic solid waste in the municipality of Villa de San Diego de Ubaté; this in response to, not only the obligation, but also the municipality's need to formulate and implement management alternatives different from those currently used, which guarantee a real and effective use, preventing and mitigating the negative environmental impacts derived from poor management of waste in the municipality. Thus, a protocol for the integral management of solid waste was formulated, outlined by means of a flow diagram, which started from a characterization previously made to the current management that is given to them in the municipality of Ubaté. In the first place it is vital to recognize the importance and relevance of environmental education in any process that seeks to actively involve the population, especially in processes of solid waste management and separation, thus, strategies are proposed in order to achieve a separation adequate and then the formulation of a selective route, fundamental point, and that complements the previous separation made by the users; In this way, we have the initial guidelines to implement an alternative management system to the conventional route carried out by the compactors of the Public Services Company of the municipality. With the above, a pilot collection plan was established, which started with the identification and characterization of the largest generators of organic solid waste within the municipality of Ubaté, such as the market square and large areas; in such a way that an initial tonnage to handle of 110.2 tons per month was concluded with the proposed alternatives, which are: first a biodigester, with a view to the production of fuel, methane gas, from the decomposition of organic matter, and the other alternative is configured in a composting system, in order to generate fertilizer and its subsequent use in both the urban and rural areas of the municipality. With the formulation of these two alternatives, a replicable starting point is established for a system that includes residential users and medium-sized producers in the municipality.