Waste Separation Plant Inser Sa

Description: The project consists of the construction and operation of a Separation Plant of Recyclable Waste of domestic and industrial origin. These materials are grouped into the following categories: · Plastic containers; · Paper and cardboard; · Metallic containers; · Tetra pak type containers. This mix will come from segregated municipal collection systems for household waste and future management models. Additionally, recyclable waste will be received from the following sources: · Base collectors; · Recyclable waste of industrial, commercial and institutional origin. This plant will have a total processing capacity of 360,000 tons of recyclable waste per year. The scope of the project is limited to the operation of the separation plant, not including the transportation of waste. Recyclable waste will be transferred to the facilities of the plant by third-party companies authorized to collect waste. In the same way, the products will be removed by authorized carriers and managers, to be taken to authorized destinations for recycling or recovery. The objective of the project is the installation of a plant that allows the separation of recyclable waste of domestic and industrial origin, so that it can later be recovered through recycling in third-party facilities. The separation plant consists of a classification facility for recyclable household and industrial waste, where waste that presents technically and economically feasible alternatives to be processed and transformed into new products is classified. To estimate the generation of recyclable waste that will feed the plant, the available data on population projections for the Metropolitan Region and per capita generation values provided by the "First Report on Solid Waste Management in Chile" were considered. From this information, an estimated value of generation per capita (ppc) of 1 kg/inhab./day. Background information on the composition of household solid waste in the Metropolitan Region was obtained from studies carried out within the framework of the HOY RECICLO project – Pilot Selective Collection of Recyclables, developed by AMUSA (Municipal Association for Environmental Sustainability). information available in the "Diagnosis Production, Import and Distribution of Containers and Packaging and the Management of Container and Packaging Waste", published in 2010 Based on this information it is possible to estimate that the fraction of recyclable waste corresponds to approximately 19 % (p/p) of the total generated. These are defined as raw material for the recycling process and correspond to the categories of: · Paper and cardboard · Plastic, · Metal and · Tetra pak.