21.5
Published onFor the definition of the assigned category and the development of the assessment, the responses to the following information requests were taken into account:
Undersecretariat of Environment (Waste Directorate)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/13QJjifhG4tv9rYcZT5NujZliKaO3WTtR/view?usp=drive_link
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12KMzw1IYPMQCriQJX4EsnFdk8vdARWJi/view?usp=drive_link
Further information:
2023 State of the Environment Report
https://www.argentina.gob.ar/sites/default/files/iea2023-version_final.pdf
Infobae article
FARN report
FIRST ANALYSIS OF THIS OBJECTIVE CONDUCTED IN AUGUST 2025
Category
Impossible to achieve
Detail
The 2023 State of the Environment Report indicates that approximately 65% of municipal solid waste is disposed of at Environmental Centres using sanitary landfill technology, mainly concentrated in large urban areas, while the remaining 35% continues to be disposed of at controlled dumps or open dumpsites. On this basis, the gap to the 2025 target is 10 percentage points. There is no consolidated official information for 2024–2025 that would make it possible to verify a significant increase in coverage or its distribution across jurisdictions.
The current economic context severely restricts the expansion of the infrastructure required to close this gap. In 2024, the execution rate for public works expenditure was approximately 25%, and a large proportion of projects were suspended or transferred to the provinces without secured national funding. This was compounded by a real-terms reduction of approximately 26% in the 2024 national budget, with cuts of between 34% and 81% in environmental budget allocations, affecting investment and operational capacity in waste management.
Although operational infrastructure exists in the main urban agglomerations and improvements have been recorded over time, the absence of updated data and the context of severe budgetary constraints mean that, with less than a year and a half remaining until 2027, achievement of the objective is practically impossible. This also makes the projected target of 90% by 2030 unlikely to be achieved.