National Materials Handling Report (RNMM 2002).
Recorded 18 post-consumption/industrial waste materials with input/output data, as well as the current status and potential alternatives of improvement and innovation for its management, such as: tires, used engine oil, car batteries, aluminum cans, packaging material, etc. The employed methodology was carried out through stakeholder dialogue and plenary decision-making session, and included the academia, business sector– Small and Medium Size Enterprises (SMEs), the Costa Rica Chamber of Industries (CICR), NGOs, independent consultants, Ministry of the Environment, Energy and Telecommunications (MINAET), Ministry of Health (MINSALUD) and CNP+L as the facilitator.
Objective:
To carry out a diagnosis on existing waste material flow in the country, in order to support modern schemes of environmental hierarchy in regards to efficient resource management.
Outcome:
- The initiative has been implemented in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala by the National Centers for a Cleaner Production.
- Initial nationwide discussion on the need to include policy-regulatory principles for potential waste management in the country, as well as Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) and Integrated Product Policy (IPP).
- Principles of Environmental Policy in regards to EPR-IPP, contemplated in current instruments in order to improve integral waste management through joint actions and strategies, and currently obtained via an Institutional Platform known as the CYMA Program, facilitated by GTZ, with the following main outcomes: Integrated Waste Management Law (IWM Law), the National Plan for Solid Waste Management (PRESOL), the Manual for the Elaboration of Municipal Plans for Integral Waste Management, among others.
- Identification of service development projects and strategic planning
- Provisioning of added-value environmental services for large and small generators
- Increase of a culture of valorization of waste material: recycling, reuse and reintegration
Coordinator, executor, coauthor.
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Project 3.2:
National Fuel and Alternative Materials Inventory, 2002.
Commissioned by Swisscontact Services and the National Industry of Cement (INCSA-HOLCIM).
Objective:
To identify waste generated by the economic activity from several industrial sectors of Costa Rica, and the potential of its use in cement kilns.
Outcome:
- Information was provided regarding location, volumes and quantities of potential material and alternative fuel that can be used in cement kilns.
- Creation of database of Costa Rican companies that due to their economic activity generate some type of waste, which can be an important input or material used in cement manufacturing.
- Added-value service was provided to large and small generators
- The culture of valorization of waste material: recycling, reuse and reintegration was increased.
Position:
Consultant coordinator, author.
Project 3.3:
FEMPAC: Costa Rican Packaging Material Foundation
Costa Rican Consortium for Packaging Material Recovery (CCRE).
- Environmental Management Strategic Model for the development of a market for post-consumption products and plastics materials;
- Strategic Planning, Balance Scorecard (BSC)
- Competitiveness and Efficient Management Solution for post-consumption packaging products and materials. San Jose – Costa Rica, 2004
Objective:
To execute a business initiative that is oriented towards the recovery and valorization of materials based on general post-consumption/industrial flows, in order to minimize its negative impact on the environment when its potential value is recovered as a physical, chemical and/or energy materials resource.
Outcome:
Conceptual framework / Generic Model Profile for the creation of business consortiums of shared and differenced responsibilities in post-consumption/industrial material flow management, such as: E-waste, packing material, dry batteries, tires, used engine oil, industrial waste (i.e. solvent waste, distillation tank sludge, industrial sludge, agricultural plastics, car batteries, biomass, construction-demolition, among others)
Position:
Author