This project aims to attend the diminishing of pollution with non-organic garbage at one of the main touristic centers on the Lake Atitlán protected area, in two ways, the first one is to amplify the activities of the implementing community Committee?s recycling and collection center with the addition of new plastic garbage processor in order to facilitate the recycling of plastics; and the second one is directed towards a formal study to establish means to provide sustainability to the whole process and collection and recycling center, through the analysis of feasibility and options to achieve this with the commercialization of recycled products and non-organic garbage.
An important part of the project is cofinanced by the local municipality and Committee?s volunteers.