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.
On August 19th in Guatemala a conference will be held on the comprehensive management and export of residues and solid waste.
The Guatemalan Exporters Association (Agexport) estimates that they hope to export 196,000 tonnes of residues and solid waste, equivalent to $50 million, this year.
S21.com.gt reports: "... on August 19 the 6th edition of ECONCIENCIA 2014 ExpoConferencias on Recycling and Environmental Responsibility will be held, in order to raise awareness of integrated management of residues and solid waste.."
Vegetable byproducts normally treated as waste can be processed into meal for animal feed.
From an article in AZTI-Tecnalia:
70% of the 25,000 tons of green waste generated in Euskadi could be exploited as animal feed.
- AZTI-Tecnalia transforms plant by-products destined for landfills into meal for animal feed
- The European project 'Clean Feed' aims to prevent vegetable waste generation by taking advantage of its use as a valuable ingredient in animal feed.
The United States has zero tolerance for the presence of chemicals like carbendazim, detected in two shipments of orange juice exported from Costa Rica.
The fungicide is used to fight orange fungus. News of the rejection of these two shipments was published on the U.S. government’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) website on April 5 and on a bulletin at the Nasdaq stock market.
Guatemalan hospital waste treatment company, EcoTerm, will begin operations in 2011.
The Panamanian franchise will carry out the processing of biological and infectious waste in Panama including collection and incineration. Its primary customers will be hospitals and clinics.
"The firm specializes in the treatment of wastes from food, medicines, blood, syringes using incineration," reports Sigloxxi.com.
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.
In its initial discussion, the Costa Rican Congress passed the Bill for Comprehensive Waste Management, an important achievement towards real sustainable economic development.
In a press release, the Chamber of Industries of Costa Rica celebrated this initiative. They argue that solid waste management has long been a problematic issue in Costa Rica, one that may only be solved via coordinated actions with all the sectors of the population, from the consumer to the government.