The end of the largest dumping ground in Latin America Marcelo Sicoli* In November 2017 in London(UK) , I was extremely happy to receive an award from CIWM( Chartered Institution of Wastes Management ): Best Resource Project by Facilities Management, representing the building which I manage, in Brasilia, capital of Brazil. Inaugurated on April 21, 1960, by then-President Juscelino Kubitschek, Brasília is currently the third largest city in Brazil, just behind Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The city had the highest rates of development and quality of life in the country in 2016. Although a rich, modern and planned city, for many decades, we had the largest dumping ground in Latin America, the second largest in the world. The “structural dumping ground” (lixão da estrutural) was only 20 kilometers away from the very central part of the city where the Brazilian congress, Brazilian Supreme court and the presidential palace is located. The area had aroun...
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