Transforming Values: The Impact of Bogotá’s Public Trash Collection Service
Mounds of garbage amassed on street corners, in front of houses. Bags splayed open, spilling onto the sidewalks, fi lling the city with stench. For three days, between December 18 and 20, 2012, trash piled up on the streets of Colombia’s capital city, a city of eight million residents. This period m...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2015 |
| País: | Ecuador |
| Institución: | Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales |
| Repositorio: | Repositorio Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.flacsoandes.edu.ec:10469/8093 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10469/8093 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | DESECHOS ADMINISTRACIÓN DE DESPERDICIOS ELIMINACIÓN DE DESECHOS BOGOTÁ (COLOMBIA) SERVICIOS PÚBLICOS PROTECCIÓN AMBIENTAL |
| Sumario: | Mounds of garbage amassed on street corners, in front of houses. Bags splayed open, spilling onto the sidewalks, fi lling the city with stench. For three days, between December 18 and 20, 2012, trash piled up on the streets of Colombia’s capital city, a city of eight million residents. This period marked the handover of waste collection in Bogotá from private companies to public entities. For those who had ignored the previous months of debate on garbage collection, the problem was brought to the forefront, to the sidewalks, and a fetid phenomenon opened a discussion on environmental responsibility, social and political inclusion, private vs. public interests and the profi tability of garbage. |
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