Diseño de un plan de manejo ambiental para la disposición final de los residuos sólidos del Mercado San Luis del Municipio del Cantón Píllaro

Abstract

A plan of Environmental Management of Solid Waste for San Luis market place at Píllaro canton in Tungurahua province was designed in order to improve its inhabitants’ life quality. A base line survey by means of applying techniques such as: interviews, observation, surveys to know the current situation of the ones involved in the management of solid waste since its origin until its final disposal. Afterwards, the environmental impact was determined through the use of Leopold matrix and then the characterization of solid wastes was performed. The results from the evaluation of the impact global project was – 176 which rate of magnitudes shows that the impact obtained is harmful, it was obtained a per capita production of 0.725 kg/persons/day, from which 58% corresponds to organic waste from vegetables, 25% to mixed wastes, 8% are residues from cardboard, 5% come from plastics and the remaining 4% come from beef residues. From the studies, it was determined the advance of the design of the plan of Environmental Management of Solid Waste which is made up of four programs: management of solid wastes, reduction and use, tracking and monitoring of the design of the management plan and socialization and diffusion campaign. It is concluded that the impacts generated can be corrected by means of the application of the design of the plan of environmental management for solid wastes, which will help to a better use and disposal of the solid residues from San Luis market place. It is recommended to the Decentralized Autonomous Government from Píllaro canton to widen this type of studies in order to strengthen the use of the wastes.