Caracterização física dos resíduos sólidos domiciliares e comerciais no município de Chapecó/SC

Abstract

A proper and effective management of solid waste in a town, begins with the knowledge on the subject, and it is a necessary the identification of the generated waste and the influences they are exposed. Facing that, the present work has as an objective to identify the gravimetric composition from waste solid the selective collection of the town, obtaining also an estimative of generation per capta. This work was held in partnership with the City Hall of Chapecó, the waste collection company from town – Tucano Obras e Serviços Ambientais (TOS) and two Associations of Collectors of Recyclable Materials of Chapecó. Among the work activities there was the sorting of collected materials in 100% urban areas of town and 60% of the rural area. After analyzing the data, the gravimetric composition obtained the following indexes: metal (7,57%), plastic (18,88%), glass (13,64%), paper (27,06%), Tetra Pack (2,45%), others (0,32%) and rejects (30,09%). Chapecó has about 0,702 kg/inhab/day geration per capta, close the average presented in the Southern region of Brazil that is 0.770 kg/inhab/day. The seasonality found in the waste area is very large and, because of that, it is necessary to maintain continuous studies, in parallel to the development of environmental education programs having as an objective, the approachment the researches results, with the reality that is faced by the managers of the municipality and by all those involved in the system.