According to reports Professional Waste, the Government of Santiago de Chile wants to implement door-to-door waste collection throughout the national territory. The Minister for the Environment of the Chilean Government, Carolina Schmidt, has spoken on several occasions about the extension of door-to-door collection in Chile, where the roadmap to the circular economy is being discussed. That is what he reaffirmed at the beginning of September when this selective collection was launched in the village of Independence.

Minister Schmidt visited the families of Independence on 3 September, stating: "We are pushing for a new form of recycling that will allow the mass of this activity throughout the national territory for the home collection of waste. It will go directly to the homes of the neighbours so that they do not have to go to the garbigunes and, in addition to collecting the best known materials such as glass, paper, plastic or cardboard, organic waste will also be collected," said Minister Schmidt.

The owner of the Environment adds that this new form of recycling will also be implemented in the new decree of the Extended Producer Responsibility Act. Once published, it will be progressively applied until 80% of housing throughout Chile has a door-to-door collection system.

Chile is one of the countries in South America that produces the most waste. Waste management has been on the table for a long time and many associations and movements against incineration are mobilised.

The National Organic Waste Strategy and the new Zero Residue Act ("Zero Residue") are currently under discussion. Being in the public debate phase, the groups of the Cero Garbage Alliance are making an effort to keep out of this law the incineration of waste that the industry intends to include in the framework of euphemistic recovery.