Gestión integrada de pilas y baterías usadas factibilidad ambiental, tecnica y operative
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2011
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SGAB Conseil - Sociedad de Gestión Ambiental Boliviana, Cochabamba, BO
Abstract
Isolated and specific awareness and collection actions aren't enough, it is necessary to build integrated and
sustainable management systems of this waste as part of the structures of the urban solid waste integrated
management from municipal governments.
SGAB – Focus Cities Project, with Canada’s IDRC support, based on the studies carried out in May 2010,
implemented as a pilot experience the "Dry used regular and cellular phone environmental management plan” in the
city of Cochabamba, Bolivia. The proposed plan installed 700 containers for used regular and cellular phone
batteries collection in educational units, health establishments, condominiums, residential areas, buildings,
commercial and Government institutions, where a trained volunteer took the responsibility for the container as well
awareness activities directed to the neighbors and surrounding areas. The collection was conducted on a regular basis
every four to five months and when the container was filled. At the same time the awareness and environmental
education and training plan concerning this system for the whole population, for teachers as diffusers and operational
staff, was implemented through courses, lectures, printed and digital material, participating in environmental fairs,
social networks and other environmental, social and scientific events.
During 17 months of operation of the “Dry used regular and cellular phone batteries pilot plan of Integrated
management” as well as all its components (technical, environmental, socio-cultural, legal policy, economic,
financial, etc.) and all its operational phases (collection, collection, transportation and storage) have been evaluated
to improve each of them and the system in general. In addition, characterization studies of types, brands, composition
and other characteristics on the collected batteries have been carried out simultaneously. Currently the pilot proposal
is sufficiently perfected to become part of the municipal integrated solid waste management system of Cochabamba,
as well as its concepts and bases to be applied in other Bolivian and Latin-American cities.
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Anexo 7 del informe final
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IDRC-Related Report
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Keywords
REGULAR BATTERIES, CELLULAR PHONE BATTERIES, HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT, SGAB, COCHABAMBA, INTEGRATED SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT, URBAN AGRICULTURE, WATER AND SANITATION, COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN ANDEAN REGION, MUNICIPALITIES, DESPERDICIOS SOLIDOS, MANEJO DE LOS RESIDUOS SOLIDOS, GESTION AMBIENTAL, CAMBIO CLIMATICO