We dedicate this special edition of nexos+1 to join forces within the framework of the project “Green Jobs Arequipa”which we developed together with our client TechnoServe, with the support of the Anglo American Foundation.
Since July 2025, this initiative has been strengthening the most important link in the recycling chain: the grassroots recyclers, more than 350 people who today require our urgent and coordinated support.
We invite members of the nexos+1 community to join capacities, alliances and concrete actions to sustain and strengthen this chain, which is key not only for the livelihoods of hundreds of families, but also for Arequipa's potential in recycling and circular economy in Peru.
Why the next government should focus on recycling
An industry capable of contributing S/. 14 billion to the GDP and generating 300,000 jobs if formalized and scaled up.
Published in the Diario Management on February 24
In the countdown to the 2026 presidential elections, promises of economic recovery are flooding the public debate. However, while the candidates focus on traditional recipes, Peru literally continues to burying a fortune. Our country generates 8.7 million tons of waste per year, and only manages to value about 2%. The real opportunity lies not only in what we extract from the earth, but in what we extract from it. we recover from our cities.
Learn about the project that connects recyclers, companies and municipalities to turn waste recovery into formal employment, stable income and local economic development, through business strengthening and the articulation of the recycling value chain.
Peru generates more than 9 million tons of waste per year. Recycling supports the work of more than 500,000 people, many of them women who operate in the first links of the chain.
In Arequipa, young people are also transforming recycling into a real opportunity for entrepreneurship and development.
Learn the story of Elías Figueroa and how, from a family business, today they manage more than 7 tons of recyclable material per month, facing gaps, closing doors and betting on the professionalization of the sector.
