10 07 29 Master thesis Juliana Leon - e-Waste. This guide

8 APPENDIXES
Appendix A.1: Summary of field visites
Name of the Place City Description and collected data
RECIMED
COOPRESER
ARB
CI Metal Comercio
Universidad Industrial
de Santander
El Bazar de los
Puentes
Plaza Minorista
Sector La Paz
Sector San Francisco
– Quebradaseca
San Andresito Centro,
San Andresito La Isla,
CC Gratamira
Medellin
Bucaramanga
Bogotá
Bucaramanga
Bucaramanga
Medellin
Medellin
Medellin
Bucaramanga
Bucaramanga
Waste cooperative grouping recicladores (still informal
workers) supported by the municipality and managing
several warehouses in the city
Waste cooperative working with formalized
recicladores. Operates with trucks in residential
sectors, owns a warehouse for sorting and preconditioning
and contracts with big companies for the
commercialization of the materials
Association grouping several waste cooperatives from
Bogotá and lobbying for the inclusion of recicladores in
the municipal solid waste planning, having a contract
for managing one municipal solid waste warehouse
PWB classification, prices and informal-formal sector
interface
Behavior of a public institution, Information about
public auctions
Informal covered market. Many electronic repairing
shops trading new and used electronic equipments
and supplies. Some shops buy e-waste and
particularly PWBs.
Informal covered market. Many electronic repairing
shops trading new and used electronic equipments
and supplies. Informal refurbishment and dismantling
is broadly practiced inside the building and on the
neighboring streets.
Trade of e-waste and dismantling practiced inside
metal scrap depot or in the streets. People dismantling
CRT-monitors in the streets.
In this sector more than 20 chatarrerias and
warehouses were accounted for out of which 7 were
interviewed. They all operate in the same way:
recicladores get e-waste from households, electronic
malls or IT shops, they dismantle or bring them as a
whole to the chatarrerías where they trade the valuable
materials (boards, metal scrap, copper). Chatarrerías
perform dismantling, sorting and accumulation of big
quantities. No valuable materials are discarded in the
street and collected by the MSW truck. When they
have sufficient quantities, PWBs are sold to CI Metal
Comercio, an associate of CI Recycables. They are
then transported to Cartagena and exported.
These three informal and semi-formal malls have
special sections for the selling and reparation of
electronic devices. They all have “contracts” with
recicladores working in a place reserved in the
basement for recovering all recyclable materials from
the building. The recicladores are dismantling e-waste
and selling valuable parts to chatarrerias in San
Francisco sector.
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