Indicadores de sustentabilidade e desempenho aplicáveis à gestão de resíduos sólidos urbanos: um estudo para municípios paraibanos

Abstract

Globalization, urbanization, a society that has become increasingly consumerist together and the population growth have resulted in an increasing waste production which, if discarded in nature indiscriminately, results in serious environmental impacts and requires specific public policies and instruments for control and preservation of the environment. On the other hand, the role of the local Courts of Accounts must move increasingly in a good and regular application of public resources direction in terms of legality, compliance, cost-effectiveness and effectiveness. From this perspective, this study proposes the adoption of performance and sustainability indicators regarding expenses related to garbage collection aiming to direct and contribute for the improvement of the performance of the Court of Accounts of the State of Paraíba. Applying the proposed indicators, it was observed a large variability of data suggesting there were errors in the form of providing information to research and control’s systems. In fact, it was also observed information under the account of expenses in environmental management function that had no relation with environmental actions or programs. By the way, because of the presence of this type of error, it was not possible to evaluate the performance of the environmental management in an important sample of municipalities. The main conclusion is that, as a basic step for public environmental goals, is necessary to train public managers and technicians on the importance of providing the correct information in control systems used. Exceeded the data quality constraint, can be calculate estimates of efficiency indices related to garbage collection of county from Paraíba.