Gestão integrada de resíduos sólidos municipais: potencialidades e desafios

Abstract

Currently there is a societal concern with environmental issues where companies and municipalities are making passive and reactive posture to adopt a proactive behavior, making environmental issues business opportunities. Part of this increase is due to the tightening of environmental legislation, as well as the option declared by the use of clean technologies for the generation reduction practices and promote the reuse of materials called for in the National Solid Waste Policy. In this context, the present study seeks to identify the opportunities and challenges for effective integrated management of municipal solid waste. For this, a theoretical, research on topics such as municipal solid waste was developed, integrated waste management, municipal management, the National Solid Waste Policy. Also a legal and conceptual approach of the integrated solid waste management was held, along with the analysis of solid waste management model applied in Salvador-Bahia. This assessment allowed the identification of the potential and the challenges for the execution of integrated, bringing mainly new issues to be addressed in its scope. There was a growing demand for political efforts for realization of integrated solid waste management. However, it is clear that despite the progress of legal guidelines, political / administrative areas still have low capacity management along with technical and financial difficulties for the management of solid waste, particularly at the municipal level. We see as a potential way to change this reality to optimize the use of traditional techniques for waste management, by expanding the application perspective of preventive environmental approaches directed to processes, products and services to increase eco-efficiency.