3.7 Colombia Waste Management and Disposal Providers
Colombia Waste Management and Disposal Providers
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Waste Disposal - Non Hazardous
Decree 1713 of 2002 and its amendments, regulates the provision
of public disposal and integrated solid waste management in
Colombia. It is the duty of the state to provide this service
either directly or through companies contracted by public tender
for it.
The Integrated Waste Management is the separation process in the
source, collection, transportation, storage, treatment or disposal;
in this last waste disposal occurs the process of isolating the
solid waste that is not usable for the users. within this process
are recyclers associations who are social actors and their main
activity is collecting recyclable waste, such paper, cardboard,
rigid and flexible plastics, which constitutes much of the solid
waste disposed.
By late 2013, the waste disposal is performed by 72% of the
municipalities in landfills, 15% in dumps, 5.2% in integrated
plant, 4.6% in transitional cell, 2% in contingency cell, 1% in
water bodies and 0.1% burns.
Landfills must be authorized under an environmental license granted
by the Ministry of Environment, which gives according to its
capacity, availability, shelf life or duration of the project. For
2013, 12% of the landfills were already zero lifetime, and about
43% life less than 10 years.
Waste Disposal - Hazardous
The management of these wastes is regulated by the Ministry of
Environmental and Territorial Development, It consists of four
stages:
Storage: This should correspond to a minimum, take all measures and
conditions for prevention and control.
Transportation: To ensure minimal environmental impact and health
workers, this operation must be established environmental
practices, which should be controlled and monitored.
Treatment and disposal or utilization: For electrical and
electronic arrangement, the government through resolution 1297 of
2010 provides, that companies producing this material should be
extended responsibility and care for these residues, this is how
many campaigns are by companies and environmental organizations for
the disposal of such waste.
The disposal of waste oils are used as energy in the combustion
process, in wood treatment, and immunization. However a lack of
enforcement of regulations for good reuse, there is a black market
for this waste, and / or improper handling and waste affects the
environment.
Among the international conventions governing the proper management
of hazardous waste during it life cycle, Colombia has approved or
ratified the following: Montreal Protocol to phase out the use of
substances that deplete the ozone layer; Basel Convention on the
control of trans boundary movements of hazardous wastes and their
disposal, adopted in 1989; and The Stockholm Convention on
persistent organic pollutants, adopted in May 2001.
NATIONAL PLAN OF WASTEWATER MANAGEMENT: by the Ministry of
Environment Housing and Territorial Development, this plan provides
guidance for the development of local and regional activities to
the proper planning, design, implementation and monitoring of the
management of wastewater, whether industrial, agricultural,
livestock origin, or domestic. However, by 2014, the water
treatment in Colombia has become one of the most critical and
growing environmental problems. The discharge of domestic
wastewater and agricultural discharges are polluting the rivers,
groundwater, wetlands and water reservoirs, causing serious damage
to the environment and human health.