📋 Tender Overview
This Minam intervention, through executing unit 003, will benefit more than 184 thousand inhabitants, together.Lima.- The Ministry of Environment (Minam) initiated the recovery work of approximately 109 hectares, in territories of Madre de Dios and Tumbes, which for a long time were contaminated by inadequate disposal of solid waste.
These interventions seek to improve the quality of life of about 184 thousand inhabitants, together. In this regard, the Technical Coordinator of the Executing Unit 003: Comprehensive Environmental Quality Management (GICA) of the Minam, Emilio Rodriguez, said that these works are executed in coordination with the municipalities involved.
He added that the MINAM goal for this year is to recover 213.5 hectares, at the national level, affected by the mismanagement of waste. These actions represent a decisive step for improving the quality of life of the population, he said.
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In Tamopata, Madre de Dios region, 16,35 hectares will be recovered, where around 381,000 m3 of waste accumulated. In this work some S/14 million will be invested. This will favorably impact more than 81,000 inhabitants.
The objective is to transform this place, previously used as a dump, into a space with environmental and social value. In addition, we have strengthened the work of recyclers with specialized clothing and motor vehicles; All this valued in 183 thousand soles, he said.
Tumbes
In Tumbes, the sector intervention will be executed in the capital of the region, on a land of 93.12 hectares, which was affected with 314 256 m3 of waste. After the culmination of the work, around 102,000 inhabitants will improve their quality of life. This, thanks to an investment of S/10.25 million.
Likewise, motorized equipment and transport were delivered, for a value of S/460 thousand, to strengthen municipal selective collection with the inclusion of 68 recyclers organized in six associations.
Upcoming projects
These projects, financed with the loan contract between the Peruvian government and the International Cooperation Agency of Japan (JICA), are added to other interventions initiated in the provinces of Azangaro, with S/ 4.09 million; Juliaca, with S/ 17 million; and in Sechura, with an investment of S/ 6.68 million. In the next two weeks, the recovery works of areas degraded by solid waste in Paita, Sullana and Nuevo Chimbote will be launched, with an estimated investment of S/27.6 million.
