Solid Waste
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Poor solid-waste management also contributes to air pollution and consequent health problems, not to mention its aesthetics—at Lampa, on Santiago’s northern outskirts, productive farmland is disappearing beneath unregulated dumping. Chile also has many informal rubbish dumps.
Despite disposal problems, city streets are relatively clean even if, in the course of Chile’s rush toward “development,” the country has grown into an unfortunate reliance on disposable beverage containers and other undesirable packaging.
Metropolitan residents produce an average of one kilogram of solid waste daily, and recycling is limited—by 2010, according to Conama, the state environmental agency, only about 10 percent of this will be recovered. The big culprit, though, is mining—99 percent of Chile’s solid waste comes from that sector.
© Wayne Bernhardson from Moon Chile, 2nd edition
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