Gestión de los desechos sólidos existentes en al EPN (Bodega de la Metalmecánica San Bartolo).

Abstract

For more than 20 years, the EPN's San Bartolo Warehouse (SBW) has housed a large number of objects (furniture, machinery, electrical and electronic equipment) which contain polluting elements such as heavy metals, classified as solid waste. dangerous and/or special. These wastes can affect the environment and health if they are not given adequate treatment and final disposal. For this reason, the main objective of this project was to find the best dosage for the encapsulation of existing toxic waste in the SBW of the EPN, deductively according to the information collected. According to the obtained results, it can be concluded that encapsulation is one of the techniques that could be applied for the confinement of polluting elements, since it manages to minimize levels of toxicity and mobility below the established limits. As a recommendation, it is considered that the EPN could make use of this report, to contemplate this type of treatment in its hazardous waste, in order to reduce the generation of dangerous waste that might affect the environment and human health.