Brazilian universities and your solid waste plan

• Autor(a) principal: Lima, Joedla Rodrigues de
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Firkow, Olga Lúcia Castreghini Freitas
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Acta Brasiliensis (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://revistas.ufcg.edu.br/ActaBra/index.php/actabra/article/view/165

Universities, the education of professionals from a plethora of fields and the providing of themselves as educational institutions which teach how to behave in an environmentally conscious. Brazil’s Federal Law 12.305/2010 and the Presidential Decree 5.940/2006 guide federal institutions on how to make a selective waste collection, including its delivery to garbage collector’s cooperatives. This paper aims to present an overview of how Brazilian universities manage their solid disposals waste demonstrating the experiences and routs developed by those institutions. Based on documental research it was possible to identify that amongst 64 Brazilian public universities studied in 2015, 31% are equipped with a department responsible for solid waste management, 33% have joined the sustainable public management agenda (A3P) and 71% have made selective collection. Among the most produced waste, paper and organic matter derived from pruning and grass mowing can be found. Despite of the existence of relevant actions, it was concluded that it is necessary to keep the incentives for the reduction and recycling, followed by the diagnosis of the waste generated, including type, amount, generating sources, disposal point of the matter, periodicity, people involved, and vehicle support to transport the waste collected.