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TRASH EVERYWHERE One of the biggest issues our planet is facing is TRASH. We have become in tireless consumers and we are not responsible for the daily waste we produce.  Colombia´s population today is 49,59 million   people  according to countrymeters.info and El Tiempo.com says year 2018 will close with 50 million.  How big is our trash production?   Dinero magazine published an article in 2017 that mentions Colombia produces 12 million tons of waste every year. On the other hand, El tiempo newspaper wrote an article in 2016 with the five departments with higher production of waste: Bogotá, Antioquia, Valle, Atlantico and Cundinamarca  who are curiously those who have the largest population too. The propper name for this trash y Solid Waste. Urban solid waste has been an increased issue during the last decades due several inappropriate processes. According to Sáez & Urdaneta (2014), quoting Ochoa (2009), solid waste needs to be handled...