For the past few weeks, I have been accompanying FUNDSAZURZA in its various solid waste management operations. This blog post will describe FUNDSAZURZA’s organizational history and will also detail my observations of the organization’s main operations: Street Sweeping, Cart Collection, Truck Collection, Transfer Station, Recycling Collection, and Recycling Center. Organizational History In the late 1990s1, […]
Author: Brent Perdue
Photo: Brent Perdue Latin America (and the Caribbean) is one of the most urbanized regions of the world. With 80 percent of residents living in urban areas, it is second only to North America.1 Urbanization agglomerates people, production and consumption, thereby creating large amounts of waste and resultant pressure on solid waste management services.. Inadequate […]