Panama: waste collection, a system that collapsed /diarioecologia.com/panama-recoleccion-de-desechos-un-sistema-que-colapso

   

 The municipality Capital produces about 1,500 tons of garbage every day, and it ends up being almost entirely buried in Cerro Patacon landfill.

There are no programs for the citizens separate waste at source, and recycling has never been a practice promoted by the government and has been left to small NGOs most they can do is make sporadic plastic recovery days , glass and paper.

The source reduction and separate collection at source and controlled disposal would bring a reduction in waste production over 50% and would avoid many environmental damage, but also requires an effort that no government has been willing to do .

While such a system brings economic use of waste in the first phase would involve an expense in special containers for glass, plastic and paper, and units should be available to do the transfer of each of these products. We should also mount various collection centers located throughout the city to try each residue.

And especially should be undertaken intensive educational campaigns so that every citizen begins to separate at source and deposit corresponding to each container.

It is a system that once you start to work brings benefits of all kinds, but make the pieces start moving this gear is not as straightforward and will be required especially from above. So far, the inertia is what continues to set the pace.
There are no programs for the citizens separate waste at source, and recycling has never been a practice promoted by the government and has been left to small NGOs most they can do is make sporadic plastic recovery days , glass and paper.
The source reduction and separate collection at source and controlled disposal would bring a reduction in waste production over 50% and would avoid many environmental damage, but also requires an effort that no government has been willing to do .
While such a system brings economic use of waste in the first phase would involve an expense in special containers for glass, plastic and paper, and units should be available to do the transfer of each of these products. We should also mount various collection centers located throughout the city to try each residue.
And especially should be undertaken intensive educational campaigns so that every citizen begins to separate at source and deposit corresponding to each container.
It is a system that once you start to work brings benefits of all kinds, but make the pieces start moving this gear is not as straightforward and will be required especially from above. So far, the inertia is what continues to set the pace.