Diagnóstico de la disposición de residuos peligrosos en la Universidad Técnica de Ambato

Abstract

Introduction: The university laboratories are places of pollution because through the management of waste, it is dispersed to the environment. This is why proper internal and external waste management must be carried out appropriately. Objective: make a diagnosis respect to the disposal of hazardous waste at the Technical University of Ambato. Method: it’s a quantitative, descriptive and cross-sectional study, in which 41 laboratories generating hazardous waste were selected. A survey was applied based on the current technical regulations of the Ministry of the Environment of Peru, with 3 sections, and the results were analyzed in the SPSS 24.0 program. Results: at the laboratories of the university predominates the elimination of infectious residues in the School of Health Sciences and construction in the School of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, the number of containers is not the necessaries (80.50%), sharps are segregated in rigid containers (75.60%), waste is not disposed of according its class (68.30%), central storage is far from medical and food services (61.00%), no treatment or final disposal is carried out by external companies (80.50%). Conclusions: The laboratories have an appropriate internal waste management, they have covered containers, the sharps are appropriately segregated, there is a correct middle storage. However, in the external management of hazardous waste, there aren’t routes or timetables for transport, no treatment or collection is carried out through an external company.