According to the investigations carried out prior to the development of the project planning, it has been determined that the main problem in many districts of Cusco is the accumulation of solid waste in public spaces that generates critical points.

This is due to different causes such as the culture of excessive and unsustainable consumerism, widespread misinformation and a low proportion of the population with knowledge of sustainability, the absence of a culture of segregation of solid waste, the scarcity of sanitary landfills, the lack of budgetary capacity and of the municipalities, the informal and unsustainable employment in waste management with respect to informal collectors, the lack of coverage of the cleaning and collection service of RRSS in charge of the municipal management, the increase in the purchase and disposal of single-use products, especially in the health sector due to the massive purchase of personal protective equipment (PPE) as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and household waste generated by patients diagnosed with the same disease (biocontaminated waste).

Thus, the aforementioned problems have repercussions in different areas, such as social and environmental, causing negative effects that threaten the development and progress of society. Such are the generation of a bad reputation for the district, the accumulation of garbage indefinitely, the deterioration of landscape beauty, as well as pollution and generation of GHG.