Diagnóstico situacional dos resíduos sólidos urbanos no município de Cuité-PB, através da aplicação do sistema de indicador de sustentabilidade pressão-estado-impacto-resposta (P-E-I-R).

Abstract

This research falls within the scope of the studies that portray the environmental quality of cities and aimed to establish a diagnosis of the problems of municipal solid waste in the city of Cuité-PB using the Sustainability Indicator System Pressure-State-Impact-Response. Considered as to the purposes as descriptive, exploratory and the means assessed as a case study resulting from the process of consultation with different social and institutional actors involved directly or indirectly with municipal solid waste in the city, scene of this study, the methodological model developed sets a unique tool for the area of environmental management, specifically with regard to activities that impact the environment. With regard to the variables of the model PEIR, these were analyzed using as a basis for the absence or presence of the same to sustainability, taking into account the scale analyzed. With the scope to improve the structure analysis, the variables that comprised the dimensions were also systematized and analyzed the sequence: the variable description, justification of the choice of variable, data source used for its proof, and findings of the council in analysis. The results confirm that the problems are unveiled identified as priorities for local management in order that the total of 36 variables, only five of them were tested positive, corresponding to a percentage of 13,8%, which shows a situation of environmental unsustainability of the problem of solid waste in the municipality. As for pressure, state and impacts to the environment caused by poor waste disposal and anthropogenic degradation has occurred in recent years, the environmental quality of the city of Cuité-PB is poor and society as a result, has charged actions aimed at conserving natural resources and the recovery and maintenance of this quality, since they are crucial in Curimataú Paraiba, especially when they include springs, streams and wetlands in general, as these areas ensure vital functions and have outstanding social and environmental importance to the council, however, few have been the responses arising from the government to mitigate the precarious and critical situation. What has until now are still small measures of significance and demonstrate merely the weakness of environmental quality and the difficulty of achieving satisfactory levels of sustainability. Therefore, this situation demands the need for change in public policy, the practices of business management and a higher level of citizenship of the population to reverse this situation.