Waste Prevention and Integral Management of Solid Waste. Analysis in a city hall of Mexico City

  • Yadira Galván Guzmán Instituto Politécnico Nacional
  • Mara Rosas Baños Instituto Politécnico Nacional
Keywords: Integrated Solid Waste Management, Waste Prevention, reduction, reuse

Abstract

The aims of Waste Prevention, WP is reduced the volume of urban solid waste in quantity and, in complexity of materials (hazardous content); it differs from the Integrated Solid Waste Management, ISWM in that the purpose of prevention is to avoid their generation. The objective of the article is to analyze if the ISMW is implemented in a town hall in Mexico City and to know if measures are applied around the WP to finally discuss the scope and complementation of both. The design is a qualitativeexplanatory case study, the Atlas.ti software is used for the analysis of interviews with officials. The results show that only is aplicated the first stages of the ISWM, which implies that it fundamentally carries out waste collection and has incipient actions to prevent the generation of waste in some of its programs.

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Yadira Galván Guzmán, Instituto Politécnico Nacional

Instituto Politécnico Nacional. Centro Investigaciones Económicas, Administrativas y Sociales, México

Mara Rosas Baños, Instituto Politécnico Nacional

Instituto Politécnico Nacional. Centro Investigaciones Económicas, Administrativas y Sociales, México

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Published
2022-12-20
How to Cite
Galván Guzmán Y. y Rosas Baños M. . (2022). Waste Prevention and Integral Management of Solid Waste. Analysis in a city hall of Mexico City. Observatorio Medioambiental, 25, 153-178. https://doi.org/10.5209/obmd.85274
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Estudios e investigaciones