TOPIC:

POLLUTION

The Garbage: The

Main environmental
pollutant in Nicaragua

By: Blanca Leiva

 The problem of garbage
in Nicaragua can be
defined as those solid and
liquid wastes, that the
vast majority of
institutions, companies
and residents generate
and dispose of poorly,
depositing it in the least
indicated places such as
channels, on empty lots,
next to the street and of
the way
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 • The garbage, whose management is consigned to the municipalities by
Law 40, is also a cause of contamination of surface and underground
water sources, damages the infrastructure of services, strongly hits our
nascent tourist industry and destroys the planet producing effect gases
greenhouse.

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 • Daily people in Managua
produce 1,600 tons of solid
waste, and in the holiday
season the number tends
to rise to 1,800 tons, of
which only 7 percent are
recycled, and the other
remaining is between the
treatment plant, causes,
streets and sidewalks,
where garbage
predominates. Every day a
single Nicaraguan can
produce 1.7 kilograms of
garbage.
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In Nicaragua, there are currently 48 garbage deposits in Managua
plus the main collection and recycling plant "La Chureca”.

In Chureca hundreds of trucks with garbage from all the

neighborhoods of Managua arrive daily.
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• But, this overwhelming and traditional situation, it is possible to change it:
resources are needed, but it is not the most important thing, the main thing
is to have political will and managerial capacity. Its treatment must be the
result of a State Policy that re-educates the entire population, promotes the
3R principles of: reduce, refuse and recycle, promote the use of these wastes
and assign responsibility to those who originate them.

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 Thanks for your
attention
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