Importância da associação Assesi para o gerenciamento dos resíduos sólidos do município de Serranópolis do Iguaçu – PR

Abstract

The last decades have been registering excessive production of solid waste. As a result, the theme of solid waste management has become a recurring issue in discussions to establish goals and strategies to minimize the damage caused. The National Solid Waste Policy foresees that all Brazilian municipalities elaborate a Municipal Solid Waste Management Plan and also foresee that the waste pickers will be the target of the plan and that strategies are established for the reintegration of these individuals. In this context of management of household waste for recycling, this work aims to analyze the working conditions, social and economic potential of the association of separators, Association of Separators of Recyclable Materials of Iguaçu of the municipality of Serranópolis do Iguaçu-PR and propose Improvements in the process. To this end, the social conditions will be identified, in which the separators of recyclable materials are submitted, pointing out the difficulties found for the separation of materials; Survey of the quantities of materials being recycled and, finally, an economic analysis of the market for recyclable products. The place where the work was conducted is the screening center of the municipality of Serranópolis do Iguaçu, Paraná. The methods performed were: document analysis; Data collection and bibliographies and field research. The target audience for the survey were recyclable material separators. The results obtained after analysis, verification and questionnaires show that most of the workers are between 34 and 41 years old, with their own homes, education between 1st and 4th grade, all are married and receive around one to two minimum wages. Regarding the commercialization price of recyclable materials, it can be observed that for most materials there was no increase. The Serranópolis screening center in Iguaçu-PR encounters difficulties in the lack of equipment of the Association, such as scales, bag elevators and conveyors. It would be necessary to acquire these equipment to better develop the activities carried out in the area and to isolate the area.