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Zero waste project
The document outlines a zero waste program in Latin America aimed at transforming traditional linear waste management into a circular model that promotes reuse, recycling, and composting. It discusses the challenges and statistics of municipal solid waste (MSW) generation across several countries, including Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, and Chile, highlighting the potential for waste to be seen as a resource. The project emphasizes education and community engagement to achieve waste reduction goals and improve waste management practices.
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- 2. Linear Model The modelof production and waste management in Latin America can be defined as linear, where natural resources are extracted and subsequently discarded in landfills, without recovering materials for reuse in production processes. culture of waste Waste Community: use and disposalProduction and services Natural ecosystems Disposal in landfills Waste Zero Waste – Concepts
- 3. Natural ecosystems Production &Services Community Recovery & composting Ecosystem Model The Zero Waste program is based on ecosystem model, in view of legal requirements and environmental best practices. The goal is to reduce the consumption of raw materials in production processes and subsequently in generating waste. The model promotes reuse, recycling, recovery and / or composting of waste generated within industry, turning them once again into raw material to be incorporated in new production processes. waste = resources Zero Waste – Concepts
- 4. Is it possiblefor us to mimic nature? Making Zero Waste, the New Normal The Zero Waste program, works through education to engage people, employees and general stakeholders in order to: • reduce waste generation; • correctly segregate waste; • collect waste; • recover waste. Zero Waste – The New Normal
- 5. • Behavior changein waste management. • Eliminate all open dumps by 2014 (currently 45% of MSW is disposed of in open dumps). • Waste material should be reduced, reused, recycled, composted or recovered from other technologies, and only when there is no alternative can they be sent to landfill. National Solid Waste Policy (Federal Law 12.035/2010, Decree 7404/2010) Zero Waste – Context of Brazil • Population: 200 million • Generation of MSW: 63 million tons/year • Generation of Industrial Waste > 100 million ton/year 1.2 Kg/day/person of MSW Selective Collection: 12% of people partially engaged • 8% is recycled • 1% is treated in composting. Traditional Collection: 55% is disposed in landfills 45% is disposed in dumps 92% of MSW is collected Current (culture of trash) Zero Waste (waste = resources) Selective Collection: 100% of people engaged Landfill 83,3% recycling potential of waste 16.7% not recycling alternative currently known 2.4% glass 2.9% steel 13.1% paper 13.5% plastic Recycling Industry Composting Plant 51.4% organic waste
- 6. Zero Waste –Context of Colombia • Population: 47.7 million • Generation of MSW: 11.5 million tons/year • Generation of Industrial Waste > ? million ton/year Traditional Collection: 54% is disposed in landfills 46% is disposed in dumps Landfill 0,66 Kg/day/person of MSW Selective Collection: 20% of people partially engaged • 15% is recycled • <4% is treated in composting. Current (culture of trash) Zero Waste (waste = resources) Selective Collection: 100% of people engaged 8% not recycling alternative currently known 4% glass 2% steel 18% paper 15% plastic Recycling Industry Composting Plant 52% organic waste • In the framework of the National Policy for Solid Waste Management issued in 1998, which is supported by the National Constitution, Law 99 of 1993 and Law 142 of 1994 three specific objectives that determine the horizon of activities were established waste management: a) Minimize the amount of waste generated, b) Increase the rational use of solid waste and, c) Improve systems for disposal, treatment and disposal of solid waste. • Decree 1713/2002 stimulates the activity of composting as a form of recycling. Economic value, economic cycle. • Resolution 1045/2003, Resolution 1477/2004 92% recycling potential 97% of MSW is collected
- 7. • Art. 41National Constitution (Argentina has provincial constitutions) • National Law 25,675 / 02 General Environmental, National Law 25,916 / 04 Household Solid Waste Management. Strategic Plan: Recovery of organic waste through composting. • There are provincial and municipal laws for the management of solid waste. • National guidelines stimulate waste management in the following categories: prevention, minimization, reuse, recycling, energy recovery, disposal. Zero Waste – Context of Argentina • Population: 40 million • Generation of MSW: 12 million tons/year • Generation of Industrial Waste > ? million ton/year 97% of MSW is collected 88% recycling potential Traditional Collection: 11% is disposed in landfills 88% is disposed in dumps Landfill 0.91 Kg/day/person of MSW Selective Collection: 11% of people partially engaged • >5% is recycled • >1% is treated in composting. Current (culture of trash) Zero Waste (waste = resources) Selective Collection: 100% of people engaged 12% not recycling alternative currently known 5% glass 2% steel 17% paper 14% plastic Recycling Industry Composting Plant 50% organic waste
- 8. Zero Waste –Context of Chile • Population: 18 million • Generation of MSW: 6.5 million tons/year • Generation of Industrial Waste > ? million ton/year Traditional Collection: 11% is disposed in landfills 88% is disposed in dumps Landfill Selective Collection: ?% of people partially engaged • <1% is recycled • <0.5% is treated in composting. Current (culture of trash) Zero Waste (waste = resources) Selective Collection: 100% of people engaged 16% not recycling alternative currently known 7% glass 2% steel 11% paper 10% plastic Recycling Industry Composting Plant 54% organic waste • National Solid Waste Policy CONAMA 2005. • The recovery of MSW is achieved through 4 processes: recycling, composting, incineration with energy recovery and other recovery operations (vermiculture). These activities are managed by municipalities. Recycling: 23,994 tons/year, Composting: 28,682 tons/year, Incineration with energy recovery: 603 tonnes/year and Other recovery operations (vermiculture): 2,453 tons/year. 84% recycling potential 95% of MSW is collected 1.1 Kg/day/person of MSW
- 9. Zero Waste –General Context Recyclable Organics Not recycling alternative currently known Colombia > recyclers (sale or donation) > composting plant (BASF) > landfill Recyclable Organics Not recycling alternative currently known > recyclers (sale or donation) > landfill > landfill Chile Argentina Recyclable of industry Recyclable of corporate Organics Not recycling alternative currently known > recyclers? > landfill > landfill > landfill Brazil Recyclable of industry Recyclable of corporate Organics Not recycling alternative currently known > recyclers > landfill > landfill > landfill Recyclable Organics Not recycling alternative currently known > recyclers (sale or donation) > composting plant (BASF) > landfill
- 10. Zero Waste –Premises of project Premises for the development of project ZeroWASTE • Engaging employees to achieve results. • Reducing (New raw materials and new process); • Reusing; • Recycling; • Composting; • Managing waste in an innovative manner; • Reducing waste management cost. environmentalintelligence Waste = Resources = Opportunity
- 11. Zero Waste –Premises of project The project should be: • economically viable; • technically achievable; • environmentally sound; • replicable in any facility. Waste = Resources = Opportunity
- 12. Thank you! Marcos AlejandroBadra marcos@inambi.com +55 19 98199 0362
Editor's Notes
- #3 The fast increase population in the world, together with disorganized growth of cities and the technological development with a growing capacity for natural resource extraction has increased the pressure on natural ecosystems, contributing to the increased generation of municipal solid waste in amounts beyond the capacity of ecosystems to assimilate or minimize the impact of the same. The generation of waste is always a characteristic of the activity of all living beings. In their metabolic processes they consume resources to obtain nutrients and energy for the maintenance of their biological structures. These same metabolic processes discard materials without use or value for these organisms. However in natural ecosystems residues of a process becomes raw material for another process, enabling the movement of the elements and energy within trophic webs. Humans extract resources in their development of the natural ecosystems, transforming them into goods and services in order to satisfy their biological needs, but also their cultural and social needs (desires). The model of human growth and development never bothered with the generation, treatment and / or disposal of waste or the environmental impacts that they could have on natural ecosystems and public health. This model of production and use of natural resources has developed since the old age, and was increased in the industrial revolution, it is believed that the ability of the planet was infinite and that the biosphere had the capacity to absorb all the waste generated.
- #4 Within natural ecosystemsfrom an overview of the ecological sciences, producers and consumers generate in each step of the trophic network large volumes of waste. At the same time, within the same ecosystem processes recyclers have developed this organic matter, which again integrates ecosystem as nutrients available for the development of producer, recycling elements, nutrients and energy within ecosystems indefinitely, not creating negative impacts to living beings. The Zero Waste program mimics, under controlled conditions, natural processes by integrating human processes to recycle their waste, preventing its accumulation or waste, and eliminating landfill disposal as an alternative. The landfill is only used when there is no known waste recovery opportunity.
- #6 Each person in Brazil produces 1.1 pounds of waste per day.
- #11 In the pedagogy, Piaget defines intelligence as the ability of an individual to adapt to his environment or surroundings. The individual through the assimilation of stimuli and accommodation of their cognitive structure adapts to live in harmony with their surroundings. Using this fetus, can we talk about environmental intelligence, where individuals, communities, industries and organizations, understand the interactions of the environment and they adapt their behavior and conduct to interact in harmony with it, creating a new culture.
- #12 To choose the projects the following premises will be used.