The Constitutive Meeting of the Coalition for the progressive closure of dumpsites in Latin America and the Caribbean was held on 10 and 11 of September 2019, in Buenos Aires, Argentina (Auditorium Hall, ISALUD University, Venezuela 847).
The Coalition was established as a follow-up to Decision 1 on Chemicals, marine litter and waste management,which was adopted at the XX Meeting of the Forum of Ministers of Environment of Latin America and theCaribbean (Buenos Aires, 9th – 12th October 2018), where the countries of the region agreed to make thenecessary efforts to strengthen the integrated solid waste management, developing the necessary policiesand strategies to phase-out the unsound waste management practices, including dumpsites and openburning.
Objectives of the meeting:
1) Define the specific objectives of the Coalition, as well as the scope of the work to be carried out and its possible organizational structure;
2) Promote a first exchange of experiences on programs for the closure of garbage dumps in different countries of the region, and the work developed by different organizations;
3) Agree on a work plan for the development of the roadmap for the progressive closure of landfills, and other related actions, such as the development of technical and financial guidelines, training, and pilot projects.
The meeting was preceded by an international conference on integral management of organic waste that was organized jointly with the Association for the Study of Waste of Argentina (ARS / ISWA).
According to the UN Environment report “Perspective of Waste Management in Latin America and the Caribbean”, organic waste is the “most generated and least managed”, said fraction represents, on average, 50 % of municipal waste in the countries of the region and “the separation at source and the differentiated collection of organic waste and its effective treatment should be promoted.”
Reunion Constitutiva Coalicion Basurales – INFORME Borrador Final 20190926 clean
