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ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION BY INGENIO VALDEZ. CASE ECUADOR

Abstract:

The Ingenio Valdez sugar factory and its impact on the environmental contamination by toxic waste in the San Francisco sector of the Milagro canton in the year 2022, affects the citizens who live in this field, for which the objective of the present work is the analysis of the conditions for the request to the authorities of the Ministry of the Environment the verification provided in article twenty-six of the Organic Code of the Environment to the Ingenio Valdez Company, and verification of compliance with the articles. The methodology that was used was qualitative and quantitative, after which a survey was carried out on the students of the José María Velasco Ibarra educational institution, which resulted in 16% not considering that the Ingenio Valdez Company frequently produces toxic waste, while a 84% consider that it is very frequent contamination of toxic waste.