The importance of dangerous waste management in a university: Study case of teaching and research laboratories

• Autor(a) principal: Antoniassi, Beatriz
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: da Silva, Mariana Cristina Kempa
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng; spa
• Título da fonte: Sistemas & Gestão
• Texto Completo: https://www.revistasg.uff.br/sg/article/view/914
• topic: Waste management; Dangerous waste; Natural environment; Legislation; Gestão de resíduos; Resíduos perigosos; Meio ambiente; Legislação

With the offer of new programs at the Sagrado Coração University (USC, in Portuguese) in the Brazilian city of Bauru, there was an increase in the production of chemical and/or dangerous waste in the teaching and research laboratories, which there was a need to manage the material more effectively, according to present legislation, as well as to not impact the environment. Therefore, this study generated a quali-quantitative survey, which was composed by a questionnaire applied to the ones responsible for the laboratories in the University, in order to identify the type, the quantity, and the format of discharge of the generated waste. The analysis of the results demonstrated the necessity of guidelines in some areas, which were not considered waste generators, but were discharging the waste incorrectly. From this study it was proposed a program of management and storage of dangerous waste and training programs, in which present economic and environmental results in a short period of time. On the other hand, it is expected to recover and reuse the generated waste in the future, in order to reduce the costs of incineration.