La disposición final de residuos y desechos sólidos en Venezuela y su régimen económico

The cities must guarantee all citizens permanent access to public services, including the urban cleaning service in all its phases, from generation to the final disposal of solid waste and waste itself, and in case the service It is provided in a delegated way through the private company, the rates must be affordable especially for the vulnerable groups and without employment, this is clearly established in the World Charter for the Right to the City. In Venezuela, the final disposal service is carried out indiscriminately, in open dumps, without environmental sanitary treatment, or adequate technical control, causing irreparable damage to society and the environment. This happens, despite the existence of a regulatory framework established in the Law on Integral Garbage Management, which obliges the provider to efficiently manage it and the beneficiary to pay for it to be sustainable and uninterrupted. In pursuit of this, it is necessary to create a waste management system adapted to the characteristics and particularities of each region, which is sustainable and environmentally, and also financially sustainable, which leads to the elaboration of complementary standards, necessary for compliance and effective application of the Law on Integral Garbage Management. Therefore, it is mandatory to implement measures within the framework of legality to obtain the necessary resources to optimize the operations of the transfer and final disposal sites, as well as guarantee their convertibility into real sanitary landfills, adjusted to the required technical and environmental standards by the National Environmental Authority.