Exploración sobre la cantidad de basura generada durante el tiempo de confinamiento en la ciudad de Loja

Abstract

Abstract: In Ecuador,the production and management of solid waste are the main causes that contribute to environmental pollution due to the rapid increase in waste in recent years.In the province of Loja, the daily production of solid waste is 0.81 kg/inhabitant.After the health emergency by COVID 19 declared by the World Health Organization (WHO), biosafety measures such as social confinement were adopted.For this reason, the present work sought to explore the generation of solid waste in the city of Loja, specifically, it sought to make a comparison between the amount of waste generated before (2015-2019) and after social confinement (2020).For this, information was requested from the Municipality and Prefecture of Loja on the amount of waste generated in the last decade.The results indicate that the weights of registered solid waste do not vary much with respect to those generated during the months of confinement.This work is expected to contribute to having a clearer database of the weights recorded during social confinement.