BATISTA JÚNIOR, Marcílio de Melo.
Abstract:
The search to solutions to social and environmental problems caused by the accumulation, fate and lack of proper treatment of solid waste has aroused discussions, demonstrations and intense search for alternatives aimed at sustainable balance the environment. Thus, implement technologies and measures that seek to minimize the volume of waste produced in the municipalities becomes imperative. Aiming at this, this study aimed to make a characterization of solid waste management in the city of Caicó-RN. Was used as methodological tools technical visits to enterprises and institutions responsible for waste management and still survey in landfill area through photographic records and use of the System Geographic position and Google Earth. It was found that most of the materials disposed in the landfill has characteristics capable of being recovered by the recycling process. Thus, we suggest the intensification of selective collection and that materials collected by trucks undergo a sorting plant. In addition, is to adopt necessary a municipal policy to monitor enterprises that discard products in the environment, which can be reused and sent to some institutions, raisin to serve as of raw material for generating employment and income.
