Unlike a landfill or dump that buries the garbage regardless of its composition, REMAP receives the mixed garbage, opens it, segregates it, cleans it, shreds it or bales it to recover as much as possible and then sends it to different recovery plants throughout Chile, prioritizing local ones. Thus, in more than one year of operation, an average recovery rate of more than 50% has been achieved. There are 7 hectares with segregating belts, balers, mills, Roman weights, sheds, marked unloading areas, waste management software and a team of 40 people working to recover the maximum amount of waste and thus avoid the economic and environmental cost, mainly due to the carbon footprint, of transporting the waste up to 800 kilometers round trip, as in the case of the waste from Quellón which is disposed of in a landfill in Los Angeles. “This new service allows companies to outsource the management of their waste, to focus on their core business, and we in our plant, with the space, permits, technology and a team experienced in recovery, recover what they could not segregate internally,” says Eduardo Blanco, general manager of REMAP. The REMAP service is a key complement to progress towards the Zero Waste goal for companies in the region. “The companies continue to manage bulky and easily disposed waste directly. We come in to facilitate the valorization process when the waste is varied, mixed, there is not enough space for segregated collection… we come in to play in the most difficult part, when the cost and operational complexity of increasing valorization makes it better for the company to outsource it, to leave it to an expert, so that they can continue to get closer to Zero Waste without having to change their internal operation,” says Blanco. REMAP has an Environmental Qualification Resolution that allows it to receive and process tires, debris, disposable waste, disposable waste, compostable organic waste, electronics, textiles, food waste and the broad families of plastics, metals, cardboard, paper and glass. In short, all non-hazardous waste. And in each truck that enters, it delivers a Recovery Report that indicates which wastes were recovered with their respective weighing, what treatment was done to each one and the percentage of recovery of the waste brought in by that truck. All with photographic support and legal traceability.