The Costa Rican government offers the Environmental Health Pathway

SAN JOSE, April 5 (EP/PL).- The President of Costa Rica, Rodrigo Chavez, and Vice President, Marie Monive, today signed the decree that makes official the policy of comprehensive waste management and organization of eco-parks. Official sources reported.

The so-called environmental health pathway focuses on comprehensive waste management to address the country's situation, said a statement from the Ministry of Health, the leader of the initiative.

Surveys conducted by the Ministry of Health reveal that in recent years in Costa Rica waste generation rates have increased by between 7.5 and 10 percent, recycling is less, and although there are eight landfills in the country, two of them have limited or no capacity. . To receive regular solid waste.

For the Minister of Health, this path articulates strategic lines of intervention in the environmental context.

We provide regulations and protocols that help us identify and analyze projects related to waste management in the country, but the most important thing is that we have prepared a comprehensive waste management policy that aims to transform this management.

The minister added in the presentation that the idea is to strengthen the social, cultural, environmental, institutional, regulatory, financial, logistical and technological aspects.

In the environmental health track, digital transformation is also promoted through inspection through the use of drones and a single window for actions to be carried out by environmental managers.

In this activity, which was attended by elected mayors, executive officials, diplomats, Ministry of Health employees and others, three projects under development in the country, such as landfills and the Pago Pita Industrial Park, of the Inter-American Organization for Development, were presented. Bank and environmental technology ca.