Estrategia legal y ambiental para la reducción de impactos en el relleno sanitario del cantón Balao

Abstract

The environmental compliance audit is a legal strategy that has been implemented within the regulatory framework in order to regularize, control and mitigate projects, works and activities. As is the case of the Balao landfill, which began its construction phase and obtaining the environmental permit in 2010, until 2018 it has had 4 environmental audits. The objective of this case is to identify findings in the management plan through the compliance evaluation matrix as part of the environmental audit of the Balao Canton Landfill, corresponding to the 2018-2021 period. To carry out the evaluation, an on-site visit was required to recognize the place and obtain preliminary information, through a checklist with the measures of the management plan updated in the last audit in order to verify whether the information has been applied. made it possible to determine non-conformities and conformities in the PMA compliance evaluation matrix. As a result of the evaluation, a high percentage of compliance was obtained, with 77.50% of the evaluated measures having been fulfilled, 15.00% were not applied because the project is in the operational stage. The remaining percentage 7.50% is made up of minor non-conformities that are measures that were not applied, such as the non-formation of a fire brigade and the good state and hygiene of the storage of recyclable waste, which they must be remedied by means of an action plan.