Segregate waste at home with Barranquilla recyclers

Clean streams: dignified work

The ASOREBAQ recycler cooperative in Barranquilla works with local leaders on a 41-component programme: Barranquilla Composta y Cultiva, that helps households separate organics and deliver clean dry recyclables. The model mirrors recycler-led organic management in Colombia and Argentina highlighted in the 2025 regional zero-waste report.

What you can do

• Join neighbourhood sorting workshops run by ASOREBAQ and partner schools.
• Separate organics and rinsed recyclables at home before hand-off to the cooperative’s collection routes.

Why it matters

When recyclers co-design collection, diversion rates rise and livelihoods are formalised, a builder-minded alternative to landfilling mixed waste.

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• Report chapter: Zero Waste Europe: Latin America & the Caribbean (5th ed.)
  · Cooperative: @asorebaqbarranquilla
  · Regional context: GAIA Latin America & the Caribbean