Tulum Circula Advises More Than 120 Businesses on Separating and Tracking Waste

Tulum, Quintana Roo — More than 120 private establishments in Tulum, including hotels, shopping plazas and condominiums, are working with the company Tulum Circula to separate their waste and document where it ends up, the firm’s operations director, Gerardo Nieto, said.

The service includes training for staff and the installation of temporary collection areas inside each business. Tulum Circula then picks up the materials and takes them to its collection centers, where workers carry out a second sorting process before sending them for recycling and reuse.

Nieto said establishments can request a final destination manifest, a document that records how their waste was handled. According to the executive, the document carries state and municipal validity within the procedures of Quintana Roo’s Environment and Ecology Department. He did not specify what share of the collected materials is recycled.

The company has operated in Tulum for more than six years and also runs the Municipal Collection Center, located next to the fire station. With that site, it currently operates two collection centers in the municipality, Nieto said.

Nieto invited hotels, restaurants, condominiums and shops to separate their waste at their own facilities. Doing so, he said, makes it easier to recover materials and allows businesses to track the final destination of the waste they generate.