Expensive Waste Management? Ministry's Plans for Sorting Secondary Raw Materials Criticized

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The Ministry of the Environment is seeking to establish by law that only packaging should be thrown into packaging containers. According to the ministry, people are currently doing it incorrectly, with a lot of secondary raw materials ending up in sorting containers, not packaging. The Association of Municipalities does not support the proposed changes.

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The Senate of the Republic launched a legal reform initiative called the General Law on Circular Economy and Integral Waste Management, for the Mitigation of Gas Emissions, which proposes, among other things, the mandatory separation of waste. The initiative was promoted by a group of legislators led by Senator Maki Ortiz, whose proposal seeks to respond to the environmental and climate crisis through a new paradigm that articulates the circular…