Soil Contamination

   Soil contamination 

Soil contamination is devastating for the environment and has consequences for all forms of life that it affects. Unsustainable agricultural practices reduce soil organic matter and can facilitate the transfer of contaminants into the food chain.

In the town of Kamikatsu (Japan), families are responsible for separating waste into up to 34 categories, which they then take to recycling points. By 2020, the town aims to reach 100% recycling of its waste, which is currently 90%, the Japanese have proven to be tremendously efficient in reusing and recycling their waste. The country's government promotes and encourages waste separation and citizens rigorously manage their own waste through a system of categorization which steadily reduces the amount of waste and has a positive impact on the environment.

In just 20 years, Wales has gone from recycling 5% of household waste to 64%. These figures are the result of an ambitious package of measures put in place by the government, which aims to promote the circular economy among its citizens. The goal is that by 2050, none of its waste will end up in landfills or incinerators. The country also intends to develop recycling plants capable of processing products that are not normally recyclable, such as mattresses and diapers.

In Sydney, an initiative called Envirobank was launched. It consists of depositing recyclable materials in machines that, in exchange, grant credit for their use in public transport. There are more than 500 machines distributed throughout the state to receive plastic containers, cans and glass, among others. Since April 2018, Indonesian commuters in the city of Suravaya can pay for their transport ticket by depositing an empty container when entering the bus, a smart way for residents to participate in sustainability and gradually reduce solid waste.

The contamination that is present in Villa Cuauhtemoc is serious, since and the streets are foun whit a large amount of waste and this could generate damage to the health of the inhabitants of the community.
The soil waste foun in the Cuauhtemoc Cultural School is not so harmful to the student community, however there is no environmental education and science on this problem since they are taken seriously enough.
For which we propose to carry out a service which consist of collecting PET and paper sheets in the community of Villa Cuauhtemoc and in the Cuauhtemoc Cultural School, later we will verify the status of said waste; if they are in good conditions, we will go to an institution which will buy them.
This is a way that we consider viable to counteract this contamination.

Some benefits that our service has are: organizing monthly street cleaning activities to reduce the impact of garbage o carry out a classification of waste (inorganic, organic, recyclable and not recyclable) plaining garbage cans in the public area with their respective signs to separate theme and making agreements or agreements with companies so that they buy the paper and the PET collected for us.