With an established goal 10 tons of special waste begins in La Guajira the day II postconsumer.

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The formal installation event will take place at 9:00 in the morning today in the Padilla Park of Riohacha with the presence of members of the Association of Industrialists of Colombia (ANDI), the manager of Lúmina Colombia, Wilson Contreras; and representatives of the companies Batteries with the Environment, Close the Cycle and Ecocomputo, responsible for the process.

Public and easily accessible sites have been arranged prior to organization to guarantee community participation.. A total of 5.181 tons of special waste, prioritized by computers, medications and batteries, They were collected during the day that took place in La Guajira in the previous period..

The organization of these days includes transportation of post-consumer elements in special vehicles to guarantee the correct final disposal of these elements when their useful life ends., or reuse for the manufacture of new items.

It should be noted that these elements after their useful life are collected in a responsibility process standardized in resolutions that mandate those responsible for the production chain.: producer and consumer to make an adequate disposal of these elements that can contaminate our water sources and the environment.

Waste that the general public and businesses must deliver in this campaign are: Energy-efficient lightbulbs, Fluorescent tubes, Cylinder high intensity discharge (HID), computers, portable, hard drives, USBs,, scanners, external drives of the DVDs CDs, monitors, printers, multifunctional, webcam, USB flash drives, containers and empty packages household insecticides, Button batteries, Tipo AA, AAA,C,D, Kind of 6 and 9 volt, and expired medicines, partially consumed, impaired, containers and packages.