Decentralized urban composting initiatives: a case study in the city of Aveiro

• Autor(a) principal: Almeida, Fernanda Alves de
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10773/36572
• topic: Community composting; Home composting; Circular economy; Questionnaire; Waste management; Urban metabolism

Portugal is a country that is in transition to implement solid waste management objectives in accordance with the goals of the European Union, namely the waste framework directive. In the European context, this circumstance accelerated the adoption of waste management rules in the region, including incentives for the composting of bio-waste with a view to the production of biofertilizers. In this context, the municipality have been tasked with developing local policies and providing funding for new initiatives that may provide solutions to the environmental and socio-economic risks associated with the disposal of bio-waste in municipal landfills. For this, this work aimed to identify the most efficient composting systems, characterize the decentralized composting initiatives (DCI) in the urban context in order to identify strategies to enhance composting in the urban context and set effective strategies to accelerate and expand urban composting practices through the study of case cities of the Ciclocompost project and the controlled. A survey was carried out on the perception of more than 100 citizens residing in the city of Aveiro (Portugal) regarding the management of their biowaste. The study demonstrates that the interviewees' limitations for composting are significant and are mainly associated with the lack of space and knowledge on the subject while motivations are associated with environmental benefits.