Diagnóstico da geração de resíduos sólidos em shopping de médio porte

• Autor(a) principal: Marega, Cecilia Carmelita Ramos
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFU
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/14164; https://doi.org/10.14393/ufu.di.2011.173
• topic: Resíduos sólidos; Coleta seletiva; Gerenciamento; Resíduos industriais; Centros comerciais; Lixo - Eliminação; Solid waste; Waste sorting; Management; CNPQ::ENGENHARIAS::ENGENHARIA CIVIL

Environmental education is an essential tool nowadays, as it aims by raising public awareness, a significant change of values in relation to the production of solid waste. In general, customers circulating in the hallways (Mall) in Shopping, discard dumps invarious types of recyclable waste, without due concern for the proper way to final disposal and environmental problems arising from this type of disposal. Thus, this study was diagnosed with the generation of solid waste from a midesize Mall of the State of Minas Gerais, and also suggest alternatives for improving management. The research allowed to draw a profile of the generation of waste at the mall in three days of sampling as well as the food court allowing the construction of a monthly profile of waste generation and especially the allocation to each type of waste gets. It turned out that the destination of the waste generated by the shopping is done incorrectly, confirmed leakage of slurry in the waste disposed at the docks which indicates that the waste is disposed in a local considerable time. As mitigation measures and control of environmental problems checked, it was proposed alternatives such as selective collection, sorting and selling recyclable materials, containers with lids to the docks, containers suitable for lamps, screening materials and carton in an appropriate use of dryer for organic waste with a potential market for animal feed production plants.