CHARACTERIZING AND QUANTIFYING SOLID WASTE IN VITIS RURAL COMMUNITY, LIMA, PERU

Authors

  • Emerson Jaime-Huaman Universidad Científica del Sur. Departamento de Ciencias de la Salud y de la Vida. Escuela de Ingeniería Ambiental. Panamericana Sur km 19. Lima 42. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3832-5391
  • Jackelin Pilar Vega-Cisneros Universidad Científica del Sur. Departamento de Ciencias de la Salud y de la Vida. Escuela de Ingeniería Ambiental. Panamericana Sur km 19. Lima 42. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1228-4026
  • René Pumaleque-Sucasaca Universidad Nacional de San Agustín de Arequipa. Facultad de Agronomía. Escuela de Agronomía, Arequipa. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1000-0931
  • Flor de Milagros Quispe-Callasi Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas. Facultad de Ingeniería. Escuela de Ingeniería Ambiental. Prolongación primavera, Lima. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0138-2381
  • Cristian Vallejos-Chamaya Universidad Científica del Sur. Departamento de Ciencias de la Salud y de la Vida. Escuela de Ingeniería Ambiental. Panamericana Sur km 19. Lima 42. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6116-8710

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24039/rtb20211921177

Keywords:

Characterization, Domiciliary, Non-domiciliary, Quantification

Abstract

Solid waste was characterized and quantified in a rural community, district of Vitis, in the province of Lima, Peru in order to determine the district's per capita production, density, composition and humidity of household and non-household waste for proper planning of the management. In the first category, a per capita generation of 0.39 kg/hab/day, density 241.61 kg / m, composition UW (usable waste) (77%), UUW (unusable waste) (23%), OW (organic waste) (69%), RI (inorganic waste) (8 %) and plastic (1.86%) of the total collected, followed by glass, paper, cardboard, textiles, packaging, rubbers and metals), with humidity (72.10%). And in the second category there was a per capita generation of 0.29 kg/hab/day, density 213.62 kg/m, composition UW (66%), UUW (34%), OW (44%), IW (22%) and plastic (4.5%) of the total collected, followed by glass, paper, cardboard, packaging, textiles and metals, with humidity (69.29%).

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Published

2021-08-07

How to Cite

Jaime-Huaman, E. ., Vega-Cisneros, J. P., Pumaleque-Sucasaca, R. ., Quispe-Callasi, F. de M. ., & Vallejos-Chamaya, C. . (2021). CHARACTERIZING AND QUANTIFYING SOLID WASTE IN VITIS RURAL COMMUNITY, LIMA, PERU. The Biologist, 19(2), 261–269. https://doi.org/10.24039/rtb20211921177

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