Circuitos ambientalistas e estratégias lixo zero em Florianópolis

Abstract

This research investigated, through ethnographic research, what we call environmentalist circuits in the city of Florianópolis/SC. Such circuits are constituted by groups engaged in communitary waste management, communitary composting, in movements in defense of agroecology, ecosocialist movements, also counting on people who participate in specific actions in favor of the environment and in actions carried out by Instituto Lixo Zero Brasil and by other public and private entities in the city. On June 4, 2018, through decree No. 18,646, the mayor of the city instituted the Florianópolis Capital Lixo Zero Program, a fact that prompted us to seek a better understanding of what has been called the zero waste concept or strategy to think about the ways they did this concept be mobilized as a social policy and how this policy resulted in socio-cultural processes that involve political dynamics and actions of different florianopolitan groups and social strata. Our ethnographic study used concepts from urban anthropology (Magnani, 2014) and anthropology of public policies (Hincapié, 2015). In the process, we try to understand certain expressions of subjectivity of the population of Florianópolis and which events, paths and trends linked to the issue of sustainability and solid waste management, prior to the Capital Lixo Zero Decree, could have enabled its conception and the transformation of an apparently utopian aspiration into something achievable, from the interface with the State, with the public power or with institutions of organized civil society.