recicladora los sauces [Atlas : Remains To Be Seen]

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====== recicladora los sauces ======
**Definition and Location **
Recicladora Los Sauces is a waste-recycling and transfer facility located in the southern part of Bogotá, in the Ciudad Bolívar City. According to a business directory listing, its address is listed as “Unnamed Road, Bogotá, Colombia,” situated approximately in the Altos de La Cruz / Arborizadora Baja area (Cybo 2025). Although the facility itself is not clearly detailed in municipal reports, similar local recycling points are registered in the UAESP site registration list, confirming the presence of formally recognised recycling nodes in Ciudad Bolívar (UAESP 2024).

**Function and Role  **
As an actor, Recicladora Los Sauces receives community-generated recyclables, including plastics, metals, and paperboard, sorts them, and forwards materials into the broader recycling chain. The facility provides informal employment opportunities for local residents and waste collectors, influencing community labour structures. According to ASOCBOLÍVAR, the Asociación de Recicladores de Ciudad Bolívar, local recyclers participate in collection, sorting, and weighing activities across the district (ASOCBOLÍVAR 2025). Additionally, UAESP reports that approximately 2948 of Bogotá’s professional recyclers are located in Ciudad Bolívar, representing about 12 % of the city’s total (UAESP 2012). The presence of the facility visibly shapes the local urban landscape, waste accumulation, and vehicle movements. operational infrastructure affect spatial patterns and public-space quality. The site also holds potential for landscape transformation, serving as a node for material reuse or community-oriented environmental interventions.

**ANT (Actor-Network Theory) Perspective **
From an ANT perspective, Recicladora Los Sauces connects human actors (workers, residents, municipal authorities) and non-human actors (equipment, waste streams) into a socio-material network. At the policy level, the facility is embedded in the larger institutional network of professional recyclers nationwide, which numbered 74313 in 2025 according to the DNP (DNP 2025), and is regulated under frameworks such as Decree 1381. Social interactions and tensions are evident in public protests: media reports document that in 2025 recyclers staged demonstrations in Bogotá’s Plaza de Bolívar using collected plastic bottles and materials to demand improved labour conditions (Vanguardia 2025). Environmental NGOs highlight the macro waste network: Greenpeace Colombia’s “Basural Móvil” action showed the daily accumulation of household waste and noted that a significant portion is sent to the Doña Juana landfill, illustrating the connection between local facilities like Recicladora Los Sauces and the broader city-waste system (Greenpeace 2025).
**Background and Data Context ** 
Public information on Recicladora Los Sauces is limited. Ciudad Bolívar reportedly recycles approximately 720 tons of material annually (UAESP 2024), yet no facility-specific throughput or equipment data are publicly available. Bogotá generates approximately 8,300 tons of waste daily, with only about 18 % being recycled (CGR Bogotá 2025).


ASOCBOLÍVAR (Asociación de Recicladores de Ciudad Bolívar) 2025. ‘Quiénes somos’, ASOCBOLÍVAR. Available at: https://www.asocbolivar.com (Accessed: 22 November 2025). 

CGR Bogotá 2025. ‘Bogotá genera aproximadamente 8 300 toneladas de residuos diarios y recicla sólo el 18%’, CGR-Bogotá. Available at: https://www.cgr-bogota.com/2025/05/06/bogotaestrategiaselmanejoderesiduos/ (Accessed: 22 November 2025). 

Cybo 2025. ‘Recicladora Los Sauces, Unnamed Road, Bogotá, Colombia’, Yellow Pages / Cybo directory. Available at: https://yellowpages-is.cybo.com/CO-p%C3%B3stn%C3%BAmmer/111941_b%C3%B3g%C3%B3ta/heimilist%C3%A6kjum-og-v%C3%B6rur/ (Accessed: 22 November 2025).  

Departamento Nacional de Planeación (DNP) 2025. ‘El gobierno del cambio le cumple a los recicladores de oficio y sus organizaciones’, DNP. Available at: https://www.dnp.gov.co/Prensa_/Noticias/Paginas/el-gobierno-del-cambio-le-cumple-a-los-recicladores-de-oficio-y-sus-organizaciones.aspx (Accessed: 22 November 2025). 

Greenpeace Colombia 2025. ‘Greenpeace Colombia realizó acción “Basural Móvil” en la Plaza de Bolívar para exigir soluciones al problema de residuos en Bogotá’, Greenpeace Colombia. Available at: https://www.greenpeace.org/colombia/noticia/campanas/contaminacion/greenpeace-colombia-realizo-accion-basural-movil-en-la-plaza-de-bolivar-para-exigir-soluciones-al-problema-de-residuos-en-bogota/ (Accessed: 22 November 2025).  

Unidad Administrativa Especial de Servicios Públicos (UAESP) 2024. ‘Notificación 20245000227731 – Carrera 78a no 58-06 Barrio Villa de los Sauces Roma’, UAESP, 19 November 2024. Available at: https://uaesp.gov.co/upload/notificaciones/2024/20245000227731.pdf (Accessed: 22 November 2025).