Determinación de oportunidades de mejora en el proceso actual de compostaje del jardín botánico José Celestino Mutis, con base en revisión de bases de datos académicas.

Abstract

The generation of organic solid waste in society today, is one of the major sources of pollution worldwide, where the treatment of such waste through composting is the alternative proposed for economic and environmental sustainability. The present document consisted in developing a methodology that would allow establishing the opportunities to improve the current composting process that is managed in the José Celestino Mutis Botanical Garden. First, a diagnosis of the current composting process in the entity was established through a survey of the personnel in charge of managing this process; then the search criteria were defined in the bibliographic sources offered by the Universidad Antonio Nariño to describe the composting process and its control parameters. With this information, an initial search was made of the literature on opportunities for improving composting in the Botanical Garden. Later, an efficient search equation was generated focusing on databases and using Boolean operators to better select articles that could be useful. Once the efficient search equation was used in the databases, a process of selection, debugging, and interpretation of the information found was carried out, by means of graphic analysis. Finally, the possible improvement opportunities that could be implemented in the José Celestino Mutis Botanical Garden were determined.