The Municipality of San José, Costa Rica, will select a bidder to finance, design, build, and operate a plant to evaluate municipal solid waste in the metropolitan area.
Costa Rica Government Purchase 2020LI-000001-0015499999:
"The purpose of this poster is to hire a bidder to finance, design, build and operate, during a 240-month period, a plant for the valuation of municipal solid waste and its final disposal.
The Indian company Gravita Nicaragua has started operating its new plastic, aluminum and cardboard recycling plant in Managua.
Gravita Nicaragua, part of Grupo Gravita India Ltd, invested $2.2 million in setting up the recycling plant.The company processespolyethylene, cardboard and paper, aluminum, copper and bronzecontainers, among other things.
While businesses and organizations try to reduce consumption of products such as plastic straws, bags or food packaging, the plastic industry is warning about the economic, health and environmental risks of these measures.
Measures to discourage the consumption of plastic products such as straws and bags pose significant challenges to companies that implement them, such as increasing costs when replacing plastic products with other reusable or recyclable products.
So far in 2016 exports of scrap metal, cardboard, glass, iron and other materials to be used for recycling, amounted to nearly $20 million, while in 2015 $24 million worth was exported.
Although it is an export sector that is growing in the country, businessmen linked to the sector believe that much of this waste being exported for recycling in other countries could be treated in Nicaragua and could generate additional revenue.
Disposal of used tires can be converted into a business which helps to alleviate the serious environmental problem they cause.
It is estimated that every year in Central America approximately nine million tires are thrown away. For example, in Panama, a country that has a poor used tire collection system, they are thrown into streams or the sea and they even end up on Patacón mountain.
Nicaragua does not recycle its discarded glass, and the little that is collected is exported to three recycling plants in other Central American countries.
Elnuevodiario.com.ni reports that "If there was a glass processing plant in Nicaragua, without a doubt the number of collectors would multiply and their income would improve, but for now the amount of material collected for selling at the three factories operating in Central America, is only 2.457 metric tons per year, the lowest of all countries on the isthmus. "
In Nicaragua exports of materials for recycling have now reached $40 million a year.
Businesses involved in recycling are pressing the Nicaraguan government to promote a solid waste law to regulate an industry that exports more than $42 million and employs 12,000 workers.
The proposals were formed this week during an international meeting of the Latin American and Caribbean Recyclers in Managua.
The recycling industry is on its way to become an important component of the economy.
The sector plans to export $ 40 million this year, nearly double the $ 24 million from 2009.
"For Carlos Marín, president of the Recycling Association of Nicaragua (ASORENIC), recycling provides jobs to about 100 thousand Nicaraguans nationwide. This includes people who earn between 50 and 100 Cordobas ($ 2.30 and $ 4.6) from residential waste collected daily, and established companies, as Renisa, which exports millions of dollars in recycled material," writes Laprensa.com.ni.
About 3600 tons of garbage end up being buried in landfills every day in Panama, and 90% of this waste could be recycled, turning trash into cash.
According to environmental experts, 90% of this waste could be recycled, turning trash into cash. And there are several Panamanian businessmen taking advantage of it.
There are many examples of the business: from obsolete computer equipment, in which they remove the chips and cards sent to the U.S., where it is processed and small parts containing gold removed; to paper, paperboard, plastic containers, packaging and even home appliances.
Costa Rica's upcoming law for Solid Waste Management introduces obligations for individuals and organizations; these open a whole new array of business opportunities.
The law, which comes into effect soon, will force companies to review, and potentially reorganize its productive processes, by quantifying and analyzing the waste they cause.
Elfinancierocr.com reviewed some of the actions undertaken by companies, such as Kimberly Clark, that owns a paper recycling plant which processes its own waste and paper from other companies.
The City of Managua and the Spanish Cooperation Agency are inviting bids for building 225 homes in La Chureca, Managua.
An integral development project in Acahualinca neighborhood will be funded with $45 million by AECID, the Spanish International Cooperation Agency for Development. It comprises building residences and creating a waste disposal plant.
The garbage recycling plant would be installed in the Chureca municipal landfill.
The project is under study and it could be implemented within a period of three months.
Journalist Anne Perez wrote for Laprensa.com.ni: "The idea shared with us (by the Russian government) is to install a plant that recycles waste and it is something apart from the project that the Spanish Cooperation (in the neighborhood Acahualinca ) has, said mayor Alexis Argüello, who was appointed by the Supreme Electoral Council in Managua to produce a report on the trip he made to Russia late last month."
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