← home / Tools / Payment-for-recovery system for waste pickers⚙● toolPayment-for-recovery system for waste pickersPractices that use itBasura Cero program (Bogotá Humana)Public policy for integrated waste management implemented by the Bogotá mayor's office (Gustavo Petro administration) within the Bogotá Humana development plan starting in December 2012. It sought a cultural shift in the perception of waste by articulating separation at the source, extended producer responsibility, reduced landfill disposal and, above all, the inclusion of informal waste pickers as providers of the waste recovery service. It leveraged the existing informal infrastructure and aimed to divert around 20% of waste from the landfill. It lost continuity after the change of administration (2016), with a heavily questioned recycling model.● Discontinued· scale subnational
