CIRCULAR ECONOMY: COLOMBIA ONE YEAR AFTER THE NATIONAL AGREEMENT

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rMIX: Il Portale del Riciclo nell'Economia Circolare - Circular economy: colombia one year after the national agreement

What Colombians did to introduce the circularity of waste

The circular economy has become part of the life of Colombian citizens with the aim of protecting the environment, the population and its territory. One year after the start of the project, we see the work done over a year.

Colombia is the sixth country in Latin America as a territorial extension and the fourth in population, counting about 42 million inhabitants and has decided to embark on a virtuous path towards a national circular economy , involving mayors, companies, recyclers, universities and all those social forces in the area that can join this cause.

The aim of this project was to push the transformation of national and agricultural production systems from a circular economy perspective and to start a path of sustainability of cities in economic, social and technological innovation terms.

This strategy involved six judah lines:

  •  Flow of civil and industrial consumables
  •  Flow of packaging materials
  •  Flow and use of biomass
  •  Sources and use of energy
  •  Water flow
  •  Flow of building materials

This great project was not brought down from above and imposed on the population and industrialists, but started with the involvement and collaboration of all the forces in the field. For this reason, the regions met with which specific agreements were made.

At the same time, social work was also carried out, as local meetings were organized in which citizens were made aware of what changes would have occurred in their relationship with domestic and industrial waste and which lifestyles would have been modified to move towards an international model of circular economy.

Specifically, during the first year of activity the following results were achieved:

  •  Signing of the national pact on the circular economy signed by 50 public and private operators.
  •  19 regional seminars on the circular economy in which 80 successful projects were presented in the country.
  •  16 regional pacts signed with over 230 unions, NGOs, academic institutions, mayors, civil organizations and recyclers.
  •  11,000 people trained
  •  15 sectoral seminars to coordinate projects with different interest groups.
  •  Creation of a new national information system on the circular economy.
  •  First training course for public officials of the central and regional government.
  •  Signing of an agreement with Ecopetrol on the management of hazardous waste such as mixtures and emulsions of oils, hydrocarbons mixed with other substances.

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