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"After 15 years of promulgation of the General Solid Waste Law, Peru still

suffers from serious public cleanliness problems. Every day there are

more urban inhabitants, and every day the Peruvians produce more garbage

The volume of garbage produced in Peru is increasing; 10 years ago it was

13,000 T/day, and today it reaches 18,000 T. Fifty percent of this waste is not

properly disposed of: we have dirty cities, dirty streets, rivers,

beaches, streams, etc."(1)

This official statement from the Peruvian government sums up the scale of the garbage issue in just a few sentences. There are 76 authorized trash dumps in the entire country, which has 33 million residents. It is a fact that approximately 30% of the trash is still on the streets and that more than 50% of the waste is not disposed of safely in a sanitary landfill. (2)

The rural communities are left to fend for themselves because the official waste landfills are situated in and around the major towns. When the modern world made its appearance in the area, the changes came too quickly for the local people. People who had previously made a living on what nature provided began to consume, which led to the current waste problem.

And, as previously stated, facilities are insufficient to handle the high volume of waste. In the best-case scenario, there is a garbage truck and a place along the road to dump the garbage. In the worst-case scenario, garbage is dumped directly into the rivers. We are witnessing this on a daily basis because we are located in San Martin.

To be more specific, we live in Chazuta, a little community located along the Hullaga River's riverbanks. Chazuta is already developed enough to have a garbage truck that transports waste to an overflowing garbage site. However, the majority of the natives in the communities surrounding the Huallaga River have no idea what to do with their trash, and thus the majority of it is being thrown onto the Huallaga River banks. The river will absorb the waste, and the people will indeed be rid of it. However, the Hullaga River eventually spills into the Amazon River, which flows to the ocean. This method of waste disposal has serious consequences for people and the Amazon's flora and wildlife. Animals die from eating plastic, nature gets polluted, and residents' fish is contaminated by microplastics. Eventually, people will get sick from this as well.

For 5 years, a dedicated group of people in Chazuta has been addressing this problem. The organization is named Chazuta Chuya Chuya, and is managed by a group of enthusiastic volunteers that feel passionately about the neighborhood they live in. (3) They want Chazuta to be clean, orderly, beautiful, and healthy.

Chazuta Chuya Chuya is a very active organization. They engage in a variety of campaigns to enhance the environment and educate the villagers on the importance of keeping it clean. For instance, they plant trees in the city to provide more shade, host educational meetings on what plastic to recycle, collect plastic and metal cans from door to door, have clean-up actions, and much more.

Their major goal, however, is to construct a sustainable garbage dump for adequate solid waste segregation and processing. Chazuta would greatly benefit from such a station. It would not only eliminate the garbage problem, but it would also create new job opportunities for the locals. Both plastic, metal cans, and organic waste can be sold to recycling businesses, making the project fully self-sustaining. The compost can also be used to support people in the city to cultivate vegetables and fruit in their gardens. Introducing urban gardening. Furthermore, Chazuta would serve as a model for the surrounding villages and small cities to follow.

Despite Chazuta Chuya Chuya's enormous enthusiasm, they face several obstacles. The most significant is a lack of financial means to complete the project. This is where we can unite together and support this committed group. The municipality of Chazuta is leading this project and is currently constructing a building for the waste recovery center. We, on our part, intend to provide the necessary supplies and equipment to ensure the project's success.

The first step is to ensure that each family has two waste bins. One for plastic and one for organic waste.
Then two trucks are needed to pick up the waste and bring it to the recovery center to be processed.
A compressing machine is necessary for processing the plastic and metal to reduce transport volume.
Because education is a critical project component, workshop materials are required.
We also wish to encourage the use of fabric bags for grocery shopping. Local tailors will manufacture these.

Within two years, we intend to establish a 100% self-sustaining, environmentally friendly, and safe waste separation station. But we can't do it alone, which is why we are reaching out to you. Please join us and help us raise the €50.000,00 needed to complete the project's first phase. Every gift, no matter how large or small, is highly appreciated. Spreading the word is also a huge gift for us.

As a token of our appreciation and to increase the project's impact even more, we'll do something extra and plant a tree for each contribution. That's our way of saying,

“A BIG THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND SUPPORT!”

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