Análise do gerenciamento de resíduos sólidos urbanos no município de Coremas - PB

Abstract

The increase of the solid waste generation due to the population and industrial growth in the urban centers mobilizes the public management in the duty to act effectively in the management of this waste, since these, if not treated in an environmentally appropriate way imply negative environmental impacts. The present work aims analyze the solid waste management in the city of Coremas (PB). For this purpose, a bibliographic search was carried out in order to know relevant legislation and discuss appropriate forms of municipal solid waste management. Also, interviews with municipal managers responsible for the area were carried out, and questionnaires were applied to the population. According to the managers, in the municipality there are collection services performed by an outsourced company that serves the entire city, health wastes are collected by another specialized outsourced company, construction waste is not the municipality's competence, but are performed and much of the disposal material is reused in landfills. In contrast, the final disposal of Household Solid Waste is in backfill. The conclusion is that some basic points of the National Solid Waste Policy are still not met, such as the existence of a Municipal Solid Waste Management Plan, a plan for selective collection, treatment of waste and final disposal in landfills, as well as education programs environmental, since most of the population approached declared that it does not practice sustainability policies (reduce, reuse and recycle) and does not perform selective collection.