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The basic environmentally sensitive management of waste considers the stages of:
• Bring into the wilderness area as little garbage as possible. Buy goods on bulk and minimize or avoid the paper, thin and plastic containers.
• Classify and store the waste in terms of what can be recycled, generally: plastic, glass, organic, paper and batteries.
• Export all the waste out of the wilderness area and reduce the organic waste. Our neighbors at Estancia Las Torres have pigs that happily eat our organic waste;
• Recycle. The waste properly classified and compacted must be given to corporations that process it and recycle. In Patagonia there is little of that and we must find a way to forward that waste to Santiago.
Our bathrooms deserve a special paragraph. Patagonia EcoCamp has two composting chambers that collect waste from 4 toilettes. The process first consider separating solid and liquid waste, solid waste remains in the composting chamber mixed with paper and woodchips and liquids come down to a lower deposit from where it passes a cleaning chamber and then is infiltrated in the ground.
So far this is the first and only existing composting unit in Patagonia and dealing with it has been a hard task, low temperatures require our chambers to be heated as to keep the microorganisms active. |
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