Diagnóstico dos resíduos sólidos do município de Santa Rosa/RS

Abstract

The increasing of generation of solid waste in Brazil has caused huge environmental problems, mainly because there is no proper disposal of it. Law 12305, from 2010, says that is mandatory to elaborate a Municipal Plan of Solid Waste, given that many Brazilian cities do not do it, Santa Rosa, included in this context, elaborates its PMGRS during 2015-2016, being this research performance during the diagnostic phase of the current situation, regarding the second phase of the plan preparation. The research aimed to analyze the management, existent projects besides performing a qualitative and qualitative analysis of RSU. It was used the City Hall available data, companies and entities connected to the department. The waste was featured through a gravimetric analysis, per capita generation and quantification of collected waste. Also, management units of waste inside and outside the city observing legal points, number of people involved in the activities and amount of prepared / processed waste were studied. The results obtained were a per capita generation of 0,69 kg.inh-1.day-1, being these compound of 38% of recyclable waste, 50,4% of organics and 10,1% of other wastes, a monthly collection of about 1400 ton, and a total of 21 waste management companies. From the results it was observed a large increase in the generation and collection in recent years, besides problems in the management of some departments and the great economic and social importance that solid waste has within the municipality.