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    Recicladores en Colombia y por el mundo
    (Fundación Universitaria Los Libertadores. Sede Bogotá., ) Rojas Santos, Laura Valentina; Turriago Hoyos, Álvaro
    Bogotá, D.C. has a total area of 177,598 hectares, of which 73% is rural area and the remaining 27% is urban area -30,736 hectares-. The Capital District is divided territorially and administratively into 20 localities, of which 6 have rural territory: Chapinero, Santa Fe, Usaquén, San Cristóbal, Usme, Ciudad Bolívar, Suba and Sumapaz. The latter is the only totally rural locality; Being an ecologically relevant town since it has the largest páramo in the world, a strategic ecosystem for the life of all Bogotanos. Due to its extension, the rural area of Bogotá fulfills a strategic protection function since 97.6% of the protected areas of the city are located in rural areas and correspond to 63.1% of the total rural land, thus demonstrating the geographical, natural, cultural and productive potential of the territory. (Mayor 2007) Bogotá, Colombia's capital city, is one of the most densely populated cities in Latin America. It brings together an enormous diversity of realities with a migratory influx in general, seeking to improve the quality of life, a dynamic that has caused an increase in the Bogota population over eight million inhabitants, thus producing 6,300 tons of solid waste per day. Some studies indicate that the composition of urban waste in Bogotá has about 55.22% of biodegradable organic waste (mostly, 74%, generated by residential users). The management of this waste consists mainly of: collection, transport and final disposal in the landfill. This process entails associated environmental problems, since the waste deposited in the landfill loses its usefulness and the anaerobic conditions of decomposition of this organic matter within the landfill release various harmful gases into the atmosphere - the greenhouse effect, as well as leachate that generates water and soil pollution; In addition, considerable energy expenditure is incurred to transport this 12 waste for long distances to the only landfill in the city. The cleaning model defined by the Zero Waste program is based on the axes of the Bogotá Humana Development Plan and the perspective of the Integral Management of Solid Waste (GIRS). This approach has been implemented by several countries, who have attributed great importance to transforming and overcoming the traditional way in which the issue of waste is managed, in which burial in landfills and landfills has been privileged without major consideration regarding the ecological impacts derived from such practices. The GIRS is focused on maximizing the use of waste, reincorporating materials into the production cycle or using them for energy generation. This reduces: the demand for virgin raw materials – and the impacts of their extraction; the generation of greenhouse gases.