The Reventazon River in Cartago, Costa Rica has become polluted by waste oil. COMCURE, an environmental management agency, and five municipalities within Cartago wish to build a plant to process this waste oil into biodiesel. We investigated economic, social and environmental impacts the plant may have through a cost-benefit analysis, site assessments, and research. From our investigation, we concluded that the plant will be profitable, accepted by the public, and should be implemented at a site in Oreamuno.

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Creator

• Zhang, Bill
• Tolbert, Katelyn N.
• Alspaugh, David L.
• Lyon, Gabriel I.

Subject

• Environment
• Industry
• Infrastructure
• Sustainability

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-121511-114207

Keyword

• Sustainable development--Economic aspects
• Sustainable development--Environmental aspects
• Water-supply--Health aspects
• Sustainability

Advisor

• Dempsey, James
• Skorinko, Jeanine LM

Year

• 2011

Center

• San Jose, Costa Rica Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• Committee of Operation and Regulation of the Upper Basin of the River Reventazón (COMCURE)

Date created

• 2011-12-15

Location

• Cartago

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright

License

• All rights reserved

Last modified

• 2021-02-03