{"id":26337,"date":"2009-06-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dejusticia.org\/from-recyclers-to-unwanted\/"},"modified":"2017-04-11T07:30:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T12:30:56","slug":"from-recyclers-to-unwanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/from-recyclers-to-unwanted\/","title":{"rendered":"From Recyclers to Unwanted?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAHORA QUE LLEVO EL UNIFORME, la Polic\u00eda ya no me casca, ni tampoco la gente que antes me trataba de ladr\u00f3n\u201d, me dijo hace unos a\u00f1os un reciclador que luc\u00eda el impecable overol verde de la Cooperativa Rescatar. <\/p>\n<p>Tuvimos la entrevista en medio de la helada noche bogotana, durante una parada del flamante cami\u00f3n de la cooperativa en el que recorr\u00edamos el norte de la ciudad.<\/p>\n<p>Cada tanto, el cami\u00f3n se deten\u00eda para recoger los residuos meticulosamente arrumados por los recicladores. La operaci\u00f3n funcionaba como un relojito: todos se conoc\u00edan y saludaban; todos eran socios de la cooperativa; nadie discut\u00eda sobre el peso del producto entregado (como pasa siempre con los intermediarios comerciales); y los que iban en el cami\u00f3n aprovechaban para hacerle propaganda al siguiente taller de capacitaci\u00f3n que iba a hacerse en la sede de la cooperativa, sobre autoestima y superaci\u00f3n personal.<\/p>\n<p>La cooperativa hab\u00eda transformado a miles de basuriegos \u2014los \u201cdesechables\u201d de la sociedad colombiana\u2014 en peque\u00f1os empresarios. Ten\u00eda bodega y maquinaria propias y sus socios, en lugar de ba\u00f1arse en la fuente de La Rebeca, hac\u00edan paseos domingueros a las piscinas de Colsubsidio en Girardot.<\/p>\n<p>La cooperativa Rescatar no era la \u00fanica. Cuando hice el estudio, a comienzos de la d\u00e9cada, ya hab\u00eda casi 100 cooperativas y varias organizaciones gremiales, como la Asociaci\u00f3n Nacional de Recicladores. El efecto ambiental de semejante esfuerzo era formidable. Seg\u00fan la Fundaci\u00f3n Social, el trabajo de reciclaje preservaba anualmente seis millones de \u00e1rboles.<\/p>\n<p>Pues bien: ahora el mismo Estado y el mismo sector privado que no hicieron nada para ayudarlos, est\u00e1n haciendo todo lo posible para revertir el proceso y convertir en desechables a estos peque\u00f1os empresarios. El primer paso fue la infame (e inconstitucional) Ley 1259 de 2008, que les proh\u00edbe escarbar en la basura y les clava una multa de hasta un mill\u00f3n de pesos si son cogidos, literalmente, con las manos en la masa. Como lo denunci\u00f3 Daniel Samper, la ley apenas disimula su objetivo de entregarles el negocio, ahora que es rentable, a compa\u00f1\u00edas privadas bien conectadas.<\/p>\n<p>Del segundo paso nos enteramos la semana pasada, gracias a una sentencia afortunada de la Corte Constitucional. El fallo tiene que ver con las licitaciones del servicio de aseo y reciclaje en las ciudades (en este caso, Cali), que son el golpe de gracia para las cooperativas de recicladores. Pas\u00e1ndose por la faja la Constituci\u00f3n, la opini\u00f3n del Alcalde y acuerdos hechos hace 10 a\u00f1os, la empresa de servicios p\u00fablicos de Cali estaba por concederle a la empresa privada el negocio en una zona de la ciudad. Los recicladores, claro, nunca fueron llamados a opinar ni participar en el proceso de licitaci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<p>La Corte hizo lo que ten\u00eda que hacer: suspender la licitaci\u00f3n y ordenarles a las autoridades cale\u00f1as dise\u00f1ar otra, con participaci\u00f3n de las organizaciones de recicladores. Y exige que en este y en futuros procesos de adjudicaci\u00f3n del servicio, se incluyan f\u00f3rmulas precisas para que las cooperativas de recicladores participen en el negocio, junto con las empresas privadas.<\/p>\n<p>El mensaje de la Corte es claro y lo tendr\u00e1n que seguir todas las autoridades p\u00fablicas del pa\u00eds. Nadie dice que no sea necesario tecnificar el reciclaje y cerrar los botaderos que contaminan. En eso las empresas privadas tienen un papel clave. Pero el mercado es suficientemente grande como para que tambi\u00e9n quepan las cooperativas de recicladores que tienen igual derecho a hacer empresa. A menos que la idea sea convertirlos de nuevo en desechables.<\/p>\n<p>[El estudio mencionado es C. Rodr\u00edguez, \u2018El caso de las cooperativas de recicladores en Colombia\u2019, en B. Santos y M. Garc\u00eda, Emancipaci\u00f3n social y violencia en Colombia (Ed. 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