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Integral management of waste in a cleaning services providing company: proposal for improvement

10.24050/reia.v20i39.1603
Published 2022-12-20
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The increase in industrial activities has led to greater production of solid waste, the poor management of these negatively impacts the environment and human health, therefore there is a need to promote the correct management of waste at national, regional and local levels. The objective of this study is to update the rates of generation and identification of the problems associated with waste management, in order to formulate a proposal for improvement for the Integral Management of Solid Waste (non-hazardous) that is carried out in two main headquarters of a public cleaning service provider company. In the first phase, the general features of the headquarters were collected through searching company official site. In the second phase, a diagnosis of the current situation of waste management is by means of through field visits, the processing of checklists, photographic records, among others. Subsequently, the characterization and quantification of the waste were carried out following the guidelines of the Manual for the Integral Management of Waste in the Aburrá Valley and the technical standard ASTM D5231–92. Finally, we assessed if environmental management activities are in line with technical and regulatory aspects and afterwards formulated management measures that would optimize internal waste management. As results we obtained that the operation and maintenance headquarters is the one with the highest waste generation with an average of 12.81 kg/day, slightly higher than the 9.90 kg/day of the administrative headquarters. In both locations, usable waste has the greatest share, representing 49.31% and 45.25 %, for base of operations and administrative headquarters, respectively. Generation rates are below some companies in the manufacturing and education sector.

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  • Alejandro Ramírez Orozco

    Universidad Nacional de Colombia - Sede Medellín

    https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1639-0907

  • Elizaberh Carvajal Flórez

    Universidad Nacional de Colombia - Sede Medellín

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