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Mémoire
Bachelor thesis

How can the city of Querétaro in Mexico adopt a more sustainable solid waste management system from an economical and environmental standpoint ?

    2020

51 p.

Mémoire de bachelor: Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2020

English This report analyses the solid waste management system of the city of Querétaro, a medium size city in the center of Mexico. It investigates economic and environmental sustainability in the solid waste management sector and addresses the following question: “How can the city of Querétaro adopt a more sustainable solid waste management system from an economical and environmental standpoint?” The objectives are to understand how the solid waste management system of this city in particular is organized, to identify the challenges faced by the different stakeholders involved in the process, and to propose initiatives that could enhance the sustainability of the system. In order to reach the defined objectives of this study, a qualitative data collection process was undertaken in the city of Querétaro and in Switzerland. The interviews in Querétaro have been conducted with the different stakeholders involved in the solid waste management system of the city. In Switzerland experts in solid waste management were interviewed in order to discuss the best practices in the sector and the possible recommendations for the city of Querétaro. During this research, various challenges preventing the city of Querétaro to reach an optimized solid waste management system in terms of economic and environmental sustainability have been identified. Amongst them we can note a lack of coordination and communication between the different stakeholders, a lack of institutional memory and political will, a low recycling rate and an under capacity of the treatment plant, an uncontrolled informal sector, a rapid population growth and a lack of education of the population on the topic. Finally, this report studies some initiatives that the city could undertake in order to move its solid waste management system towards a more economically and environmentally sustainable one. The four main initiatives that are presented in this report are 1) the establishment of a separate collection system, 2) the integration of the informal sector, 3) the implementation of a programme to reduce the quantity of waste generated in the city and 4) an improvement in the solid waste related data collection system. The proposed initiatives have an economic, environmental, and sometimes social dimensions aiming at reaching an optimum solution for all the stakeholders.
Language
  • English
Classification
Economics
Notes
  • Haute école de gestion Genève
  • International Business Management
  • hesso:hegge
License
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Identifiers
  • RERO DOC 329848
Persistent URL
https://sonar.ch/hesso/documents/315103
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