{"id":15451,"date":"2019-03-18T12:28:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T17:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/?p=15451"},"modified":"2019-03-18T12:28:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T17:28:52","slug":"machu-picchu-to-undertake-waste-conversion-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/2019\/machu-picchu-to-undertake-waste-conversion-program\/15451\/","title":{"rendered":"Machu Picchu to Undertake Waste Conversion Program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amid rising levels of pollution, the district of Machu Picchu has a new strategy for keeping itself clean in a sustainable way: <strong>converting<\/strong> <strong>organic waste<\/strong> into <strong>fertilizer<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The process is called <em>pyrolysis<\/em>, and uses extremely high temperatures to decompose organic materials. The piece of equipment, called a pyrolyzer, weighs three tons, and can process up to six tons of <strong>organic waste<\/strong> at a time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was given as a gift to the district of <strong>Machu Picchu<\/strong>, thanks to the help of the groups <em>Inka Terra<\/em> and <em>La Calera<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seeing as the district has a quantity of visitors daily that exceeds its population, the new technology will be enormously helpful in <strong>recycling<\/strong> the twelve to fourteen tons of waste that accumulate in the district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As for the fertilizer byproduct of the waste, it is being used to increase the yield of farmers in the Machu Picchu district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This development is just the latest in a long series of proactive moves by Machu Picchu&#8217;s administration to address the <strong>problem of waste<\/strong> in and around the archaeological site. While the high (and still increasing) traffic to the site tends to imply risks for its environmental well-being, these aggressive measures by the district instill confidence that the captivating mountain fortress will remain a sustainable <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/andina.pe\/agencia\/noticia-machu-picchu-pueblo-convertira-basura-organica-abono-para-agricultura-745240.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Andina.com.pe (opens in a new tab)\">Andina.com.pe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid rising levels of pollution, the district of Machu Picchu has a new strategy for keeping itself clean in a sustainable way: converting organic waste into fertilizer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":15481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[761,949],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-15451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-machu-picchu","tag-peru-environment","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15451"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=15451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}