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Darío Arturo Beltrán Ortiz is a Colombian businessman known for modernizing the garbage collection service of Bogotá, the largest city in Colombia.

Beltrán has a solid waste collection business owner since 1993, when he was the first private operators in the industry to submit a bid in association with garbage collector workers. The Colombian government had opened bidding that year for waste collection.

Beltrán is recognized as a successful businessman who was close to Bogotá Mayor Gustavo Petro.

Beltrán won the bid for the garbage collection contract from former Bogotá mayor Jaime Castro. Beltrán was a partner in the Corpoaseo Total company along with entrepreneur Óscar Salazar. Before Corpoaseo, Beltrán worked as a supervisor in the toilet company Aseo Capital.

In 2003, after his contract was completed in Bogotá, he again submitted a bid, but this time lost out to other companies.

At this point in his career, Beltrán focused on garbage collection in smaller cities with the Proactiva company. Beltrán’s business was the largest among small garbage entrepreneurs, picking up contracts in Tuluá, Pradera and Palmira.

In 2010, he was a key figure in a dispute between garbage collectors working for the Doña Juana landfill in Bogotá. Up until that time, the work had been done by the Proactiva company, which Beltrán advised.

In 2012, Bogotá mayor Gustavo Petro announced that the garbage collection business model would change in Bogotá. The current private operators would cease business. The company Acueducto would be in charge of the operation. Beltrán, through the company Gestión Integral del Medio Ambiente Ltda., GIMA Ltda, received a contract in the Aqueduct. The goal was to design and implement an “optimal system” for public waste services in the city of Bogotá. Beltrán both helped design the system and then proposed to be one of the companies to execute the system.

Beltrán, through the company Environmental Environmental Management, consulted with Bogotá to develop an optimal system for public waste management for the city.

On November 23, 2012, Beltrán landed a contract for $500 million pesos with the Aqueduct and Sewer Company of Bogotá for the design of an optimal public plumbing system for the city of Bogotá. The consultancy was carried out through the firm Gestión Integral del Medio Ambiente (Gima Ltda), created by Beltrán.

He is also one of the directors of Transportes Coronado Investment SA, a garbage collection service in Panama.