Compostage: the importance of the organic waste reuse for the sustainability at a Higher Education Institution

• Autor(a) principal: Marchi, Cristina Maria Dacach Fernandez
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Gonçalves, Isadora de Oliveira
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Monografias Ambientais
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufsm.br/remoa/article/view/41718
• topic: Organic waste; Composting; Solid Waste management; National Policy of Solid Waste; Environmental Management; Resíduos orgânicos; Compostagem; Gerenciamento de resíduos sólidos; Politica Nacional de Resíduos Sólidos; Gestão Ambiental

Population growth, urbanization, economic and technological development have led to changes in lifestyle, changing modes of production and consumption. Thus, they resulted in an increase in both quantity and diversity of solid waste generation. Consequently, there is a need to promote an adequate final disposition of the waste generated. The present study aimed to propose improvements for the management of organic solid waste from a Higher Education Institution, when four areas of organic waste disposal were delineated and quantified in the study area. As a result, it is possible to highlight the place where the university restaurant operates, which presented the highest percentage of organic waste, 84% of the total (142,240g). It was verified that there is not a correct destination of the organic residues generated. Composting is a viable way for environmentally appropriate disposal, using waste in urban and rural agriculture as fertilizer. It is important to highlight that the simple implementation of a composting system does not solve the serious problems of the incorrect destination, which pollutes and presents environmental risk. Thus, it was necessary to prepare and present a Management Plan for Organic Solid Waste for the Institution under study, aiming to propose environmentally appropriate planning and management.