Waste collectors, with challenges to integrate into the formality: Costa Salvaje | Tijuana News

2023-08-11 23:16:56

Tijuana, BC.- The progress so that the waste collectors in Tijuana make their activity a formal job has been difficult, commented the manager of marine waste in wild coast, Rosario Norzagaray Roman.

He specified that the non-existence of a governance scheme in the public administration has prevented these people from detonating the recycling market as a segment of stable employment in the city.

“They are experiencing a slow process, we have taught the procedures, because it also has to do with the collector being interested and losing fear of the administrative issue (taxes and bureaucracy),” he said.

Pickers Earnings

Norzagaray Román affirmed that from the profits that the collectors obtain by delivering the waste in collection centers, they end up with a low margin for the acquisition of raw materials and other additional expenses.

The marine waste manager at wild coast indicated that the collector ecosystem in Tijuana It has around 194 people, but only 24 of them present themselves officially and another 60 more indirectly.

Rosario Norzagaray Román, marine waste manager at Costa Salvaje. Photo: Emmanuel Castañeda

Likewise, the member of the environmental organization explained that to date there is the participation of citizens from approximately 13 neighborhoods in the municipality.

Colonies where collectors reside

Among them, shared Norzagaray Román, are the areas of Cumbres, Santa Fe, Infonavit Río, Anexa Miramar, Los Laureles, Rancho Las Flores, Lázaro Cárdenas, Buenos Aires Norte, La Presa and El Refugioto name a few.

“In the last 31 months we have recovered 82,000 kilograms, a little more than 37,000 with the retention system in the streams and another 45,000 thanks to the network of recoverers,” he said.

The marine waste manager at wild coast He said that, of those 82 thousand kilograms, 93% are plastic, and that of that percentage around 41% are tires.

We are inviting them to take up the challenge of being transparent and to do justice for themselves, to take the benefits that doing a job of this nature, so important to the crisis we are experiencing,” concluded Norzagaray Román.

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