In 2016 almost 30 thousand tons of hazardous waste was processed in Costa Rica, in a market where there are 33 agents, 576 generators and 25 transport companies.
Data from the 2016 report: "Management System for Hazardous Solid Waste (SIGREP by its initials in Spanish)" by the MINAE indicate that among the main hazardous wastes processed in the country are used car oils, paints, solvents, and sludge and slag from industrial furnaces.
The National Recycling Strategy announced by the administration Solis contemplates the implementation of a virtual stock exchange in which companies from different sectors can sell waste materials.
The initiative aims to give value to industrial and waste materials that can be reused as raw materials in different productive activities.
Nacion.com reported that "...This is a digital platform where users, mainly companies, may offer waste and, likewise, seek waste materials that could serve as inputs for their respective activities. The goal, according to the official document, is to 'boost the supply and demand of waste in a practical, user-friendly and simple manner'. "
The recycling industry grows in the region as a way to save costs, create jobs and protect the environment.
"Nicaragua has exported until October of this year about 40 million Dollars in recyclable material, primarily iron, while in 2009 it exported 24 million Dollars," stated as evidence of the sector´s growth Carlos Marin, president of the Recycling Association of that country.
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.
The Annual Conference of the Central American Network for the Promotion of Corporate Social Responsibility will be called ConvertiRSE.
The conference will be held on November 17, 18, and 19 and will bring together the main representatives of the organizations that are in charge of promoting RSE in each of the countries: CentraRSE in Guatemala, Fundemas in El Salvador, FundahRSE in Honduras, UniRSE in Nicaragua, IntegraRSE in Panama, and the Business Association for Development (AED) in Costa Rica.
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