Gerenciamento dos resíduos sólidos urbanos do município de Chopinzinho – PR – 2015 a 2017

Abstract

Selective waste collection is a highly efficient practice when it comes to urban solid waste management, and one of the main difficulties encountered is related to the acceptance and participation of the population, making it essential for the population to be aware of the importance and understand their responsibilities. In this sense, the aim of this work was to quantify the solid waste of the Municipality of Chopinzinho-PR for the recycling, the amount that is sent to the recycling, and to present the environmental education project developed by the Company CTR3 in the municipality, describing the solid waste management urban studies in the period from October 2015 to December 2017, through an exploratory research with quantitative results analysis, using the documentary research method. As final considerations could be observed that the use of selective collection, associated to the environmental education project, obtained results that reached an increasing of 61.8% in waste collected annually, that amount of waste that no longer have as final destination the landfill Restroom.