Principales efectos ambientales, sociales y económicos generados por los vertederos sanitarios en el municipio de Bojacá, Cundinamarca

Abstract

One of the great environmental difficulties in Colombia is the treatment of garbage and its final disposal, normally carried out in open-air landfills, which generates problems that can be approached from different areas such as administrative, accounting, environmental and legal. From the above, the present work aims to determine the main environmental, social and economic effects generated by sanitary landfills in the municipality of Bojacá Cundinamarca from a qualitative explanatory process in which a review of documents and the application of semi-structured interviews were carried out. It was evidenced a lack of processes to know the economic deterioration caused by the operation of sanitary landfills, problems in the separation of garbage and the lack of knowledge of the subject on the part of the citizenship. Therefore, we propose a policy related to waste reduction, a recycling model that proves to be effective in separating waste and encouraging citizen participation.