Presented at: GSEF2016 Montreal

Organisation: Asociación de Municipalidades en Red del Perú (MUNIRED PERU, SSE Organization) 

Date: September 8, 2016

Presenter: Mr. Jesus Quispe (Coordinator of Productive Municipalities Commission of Solidarity Economy and Tourism, MUNIRED PERU)

Contacts: jesusquisper@yahoo.es

Summary: 

In order to tackle the problem of environmental pollution, the district of Ate in Lima (650,000 inhabitants), with the technical support of MUNIRED and the Comisión de Municipios Productivos, Economía Solidaria y Turismo, implemented a participative environmental management process in 2011 that contributes to creating environmental citizens through eco-efficiency and social inclusion through the “Program for Waste Separation at the Source and the Selective Collection of Solid Waste in the district of Ate”. The recyclers are young people with physical and/or cognitive disabilities, registered in the Municipal Office for the Support to People with Disabilities -OMAPED-, who previously carried out this activity informally in the streets.