Resíduos sólidos no município de Paranavaí, PR: um panorama de como acontece à destinação do lixo urbano

Abstract

With overcrowded cities, waste generation is increasing more and more, and this becomes a major problem especially in cities where there is no landfill. The aim of this paper is to present as is happening to the disposal of solid waste from Paraná municipality today. By the year 2003 the municipal waste was disposed of in a landfill in the open, did not have any protection mechanism to the environment, after 2013 the waste began to be managed in an integrated manner, being articulated through regulatory, operational, financial stocks and planning an administration develops, based on health, environmental and economic criteria for collection activities, treatment and disposal of waste in the city. The city also has the CICA (Consortium Caiuá Environmental Inter), an agreement where municipalities that have no structure to build and maintain its own landfill because of their high cost, exclusively discard their waste in the landfill Paranavaí. With this agreement, Paranavaí close relations with neighboring municipalities and acts to protect the environment and our water sources, reducing the risk of groundwater contamination as the garbage problem does not follow geographical boundaries. As questionnaires to Saint Vincent Garden residents, it was observed that have a good awareness of the trash.