O cenário da gestão de resíduos sólidos urbanos: um estudo no município de Sousa/PB, no período 2015-2016.

Abstract

In Brazil, the environmental issue was stepped up between the 60 and 70 due to intense urban growth, in order to reflect the future of natural resources, and educate society that productive practices should avoid environmental damage. In this sense, society has to worry about the management of solid waste, as they are accumulated in large urban centers uncontrollably. Thus, it became necessary increased investment to the correct management of waste through recycling garbage collection systems. It is in this context that this study examined the scene of the municipal solid waste management in the municipality of Sousa / PB in the period 2015-2016, through the exploratory and descriptive method, using the field and documentary research. Thus it was obtained in the analysis of the results in the city of Sousa that the old dump in the open was inactive, and hired a company that was responsible legally for a landfill, which receives and treats municipal waste generated by the community. Racing Sousa Prefecture only the collection and transportation of waste to its final destination. However, there is the collection of these wastes is not yet formally held in the city, although there is a cooperative made up of more than 45 collectors who perform this type of door-to-door collection, without the support of the City and without partnership with the contractor. It being understood that all waste delivered to the landfill is collected directly in the urban area without any screening process. Fact that, worrying, since generates waste disposed of improperly overload this landfill, which can cause damage to nature. In this context, it is suggested to municipal management to create new strategies and planning that involves teamwork, interconnected, especially among infrastructure departments and the environment, seeking to raise awareness of the importance of selective collection.