City dwellers often have a distant relationship with the origin and destination of the products they consume. In the case of organic waste, which is often easily utilised in rural environments, the characteristics of urban living spaces pose additional hurdles for the successful collection and use of these materials. In Bogota, a bustling city at the center of the Colombian economy (and geography), the challenge of using the organic waste from households in productive ways has puzzled city officials and citizens for decades.

Paquerxs Bogotá is a volunteer-lead, multi-stakeholder network of individuals and organisations that promotes and supports the creation of biodigester bales (pacas biodigestoras in Spanish) across neighborhoods and communities surrounding public parks and other green public spaces in the city. The "pacas biodigestoras Silva", as the system is often referred to in honor to its creator, Guillermo Silva Pérez, are tightly packed cubes with sides of about 1 meter, made up of successive layers of organic waste (including residues of cheese, meats and eggs) and lawn or gardening cuttings that turn into rich, fertilised patches of soil in a period of 5 to 6 months. Each block can hold up to 500 Kg of organic waste and is also a great use of cuttings from park grooming, which helps create a nearly closed system in the upkeep of the parks themselves.

As of May 2022, the online map of 'pacas' in Bogota registers 80 sites where biodigester bales are being maintained by neighbors of parks and other green sites across the city. The network has the participation of local universities, the Botanical Garden of Bogota and several other entities of the city government, together with driven individuals who regularly meet at each site to gather their homes' organic waste and build the blocks.