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Month : December

Mexico: Coahuila Adopts Waste Law

On 02 December 2007 the Mexican state of Coahuila adopted a law on the prevention and integrated management of wastes. The Law calls for the state’s Ecology Institute to create a State Program on the Prevention and Integrated Management of Wastes that emphasizes valorization, shared responsibility, waste separation at the source, and “adequate measures” to reincorporate reusable and recyclable wastes into the production cycle. Among other things, it requires producers and sellers of products that produce recyclable wastes to include waste minimization in their waste management plans. The Ecology Institute is to discuss with municipalities and producers “economic instruments that will permit sustaining the cost of managing their wastes post-consumer.”

The Law also requires producers, importers, exporters and distributors of products that upon discard become "special management wastes" to submit waste management plans for Institute approval. This category explicitly includes "technological wastes" (end-of-life electronics and motor vehicles), construction and demolition wastes, department store and shopping center wastes, wastewater treatment wastes, non-hazardous industrial process wastes, agricultural wastes, health service wastes and transport service wastes.

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' Recycling & Solid Waste Policy
in Latin America and the Caribbean '

by Keith E. Ripley