Desafios e perspectivas rumo ao gerenciamento integrado de resíduos sólidos nas cidades brasileiras: contribuições a partir de estudos de caso europeus

• Autor(a) principal: Polzer, Verônica Rosária
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações do Mackenzie
• Texto Completo: http://dspace.mackenzie.br/handle/10899/25864
• topic: gerenciamento integrado de resíduos sólidos urbanos; planejamento urbano; Europa; Suécia; Symbiocity; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::PLANEJAMENTO URBANO E REGIONAL::SERVICOS URBANOS E REGIONAIS::INFRA-ESTRUTURAS URBANAS E REGIONAIS

Currently, more than 1.3 billion tons of solid waste are produced every year around the world from households, hospitals, industries, among others. Most of this volume has as final destination places like dumps, groundwater, wasteland and other spaces that are not prepared to receive such material. Due to the large impact generated by the solid waste on the environment and public health, it is necessary to develop an integrated plan for solid waste management, which combined with other public policies can promote social, economic and environmental aspects of urban centers. Thus, the National Policy of Solid Waste, a regulatory milestone in Brazil, was important to clarify the role of each agent in solid waste management and also to determinate the definitive closure of dumps. Also, established the following hierarchy in solid waste management: waste reduction at source, reuse, recycling, energy recovery and then, landfill disposal. Therefore, significant changes in solid waste management will be needed in the coming years and this issue should be addressed with other public policies through an integrated and coordinated way, considering solutions in medium and long term. In Europe, Sweden along with, Denmark, Netherland, Austria, Germany and Switzerland, form a group of countries which allocate less than 1% of waste to landfills. Sweden was the country chosen to illustrate the engineering techniques in collection and proper disposal of solid waste because it has high rates of recycling, composting and energy recovery. Furthermore, its integrated solid waste management is part of a national program for sustainable development called SymbioCity, turning the Swedish cities research example, achieving results close to 100% in proper waste destination