Colombia. The President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, proposed establishing the 'Zero Waste' program throughout the country, which remunerates traditional recyclers throughout the country and decreases cleaning service fees.

The announcement was made by the President at the inauguration ceremony of Ruth Maritza Quevedo as Commissioner of the Commission for the Regulation of Drinking Water and Basic Sanitation, which took place in the Protocol Hall of the Casa de Nariño.

In this regard, the President said: "Let's put some paths that are fundamental for there to be 'Zero Waste' in Colombia, in such a way that we do not help, by maintaining profits, particular greeds, to aggravate the problems of global warming and, therefore, of the world's climate crisis."

This initiative, explained the Head of State, consists of initiating a process through which waste will be reused in order to stop and mitigate the consequences of the climate crisis throughout the planet.

And he added that "both on the issue of sanitation and water, we have had political tensions and a debate that, in a Government of Change, has to be processed in such a way that we guarantee the right to life through the right to drinking water."

Likewise, he asked the newly inaugurated that the Commission present to the President of the Republic the resolutions that will be signed so that in the country 'Zero Waste' is established as a mandatory program, "that remunerates, really, traditional recyclers in all corners of Colombia and that substantially decreases traditional cleaning services that take waste to open air points and burials. which are now called landfills."