The Cinturón Ecological Reserve (Área Reserva Cinturón Ecológico) is an area of the
Avellaneda Partido
Avellaneda is a partido in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It has an area of and a population of 663,953 in 2001. Its administrative seat is the city of Avellaneda.
The partido is located in the Greater Buenos Aires urban area, separated fro ...
,
Buenos Aires Province
Buenos Aires, officially the Buenos Aires Province, is the largest and most populous Provinces of Argentina, Argentine province. It takes its name from the city of Buenos Aires, the capital of the country, which used to be part of the province an ...
, Argentina. It is located on the bank of the
Río de la Plata
The Río de la Plata (; ), also called the River Plate or La Plata River in English, is the estuary formed by the confluence of the Uruguay River and the Paraná River at Punta Gorda, Colonia, Punta Gorda. It empties into the Atlantic Ocean and ...
.
The Area Reserva Cinturón Ecológico, the "Environmental Belt Reserve Area," was planned during the
last dictatorship as an ecological approach to caring for the
incinerator
Incineration is a list of solid waste treatment technologies, waste treatment process that involves the combustion of substances contained in waste materials. Industrial plants for waste incineration are commonly referred to as waste-to-ene ...
-generated
landfill
A landfill is a site for the disposal of waste materials. It is the oldest and most common form of waste disposal, although the systematic burial of waste with daily, intermediate and final covers only began in the 1940s. In the past, waste was ...
matter from Buenos Aires thousands of apartment buildings. Buenos Aires' Mayor
Osvaldo Cacciatore
Osvaldo Andrés Cacciatore (1924–2007) was an Argentine Air Force brigadier and Mayor of Buenos Aires during the National Reorganization Process military dictatorship.
His management at the head of the city of Buenos Aires was controversial fo ...
's 1978 initiative called for curbside pickup service of the 5,400 daily tons of refuse previously incinerated but now sent to landfills circling the city that when filled would be transformed into
greenbelt
A green belt or greenbelt is a policy, and land-use zone designation used in land-use planning to retain areas of largely undeveloped, wild, or agricultural land surrounding or neighboring urban areas. Similar concepts are greenways or gree ...
parklands to be created atop. With a population of 3,408 ## it is the least populated area in Avellaneda Partido.
Populated places in Buenos Aires Province
Avellaneda Partido
Landfills
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