Cases / Waste management · Argentina · 2018

Buenos Aires amends zero-waste law in 2018, with deadlines to 2030

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Buenos Aires’s Basura Cero law sets the city’s waste-reduction targets. A 2018 amendment added “valorization” to its definition and moved the deadlines to 2021, 2025 and 2030, which changes what counts as progress.

What?

Buenos Aires amended its Basura Cero zero-waste law in 2018, adding “valorization” to the definition and moving the deadlines. Boletín Oficial de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires

Where?

City of Buenos Aires, Argentina Boletín Oficial de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires

When?

Amended in 2018; new deadlines 2021, 2025 and 2030 Boletín Oficial de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires

Who?

Gained

None on record

Lost

None on record

Harmed

None on record

Why?

Not stated in the sources reviewed.

How?

Legal amendment to the programme’s definition and timetable (Law 5966/2018). Boletín Oficial de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires

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What happened

The record, in order.

Law 5966 of 2018 added “valorization” to the programme’s definition of zero waste, according to the Official Bulletin of the City of Buenos Aires.

The same law moved the programme’s timetable to 2021, 2025 and 2030, according to the same Bulletin entry.

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Nature

Not measured Harm to nature: The record holds no measurement of harm to nature.

Record

Insufficient Reported but not verified: Greenpeace Argentina says the 2017 target was a 75% reduction and the city achieved 26%.
Insufficient Reported but not verified: Greenpeace Argentina says the 2018 change lifted the ban on incineration.
Insufficient Reported but not verified: about 2,500 waste pickers are involved in the programme (no source given).
None on record The sources reviewed do not say who gained from the 2018 change or who bore its costs.