A NOVA GESTÃO DOS RESÍDUOS SÓLIDOS URBANOS NO BRASIL: DA REPARAÇÃO À PREVENÇÃO.

Abstract

The path to a modern and sustainable management of municipal solid waste goes through the transition from the paradigm of trash to a new ecological paradigm of material flow, based on the required application of environmental justice principle of prevention. This thesis assumes that the solid waste has always followed the evolution of mankind, however, over the past few years, the misuse of nonrenewable natural resources and intensive production of goods and services meant that they were produced almost inexorably, proving to be one of the main concerns of humanity. In Brazil, waste management experienced hitherto limited to the actions of removal and disposal, corroborating the collective imagination built throughout history, in which man dislikes his own waste. However, the new Brazilian law for waste management in the wake of being adopted in the legislation of developed countries, is based on epistemological foundations of systems thinking and complex adopts an integrated view of the flow of materials and waste prevention. The Law of the National Solid Waste Policy has created a system for waste prevention. One of the preciput purposes of environmental law is to ensure the protection of the environment, for both shall regulate the relations arising from the issue of waste not only from the perspective of accountability and justice environmental remediation of waste generated by degradation, but rather undertake the search the larger goal of environmental legal protection, which is not only the prevention of damage from the generation of waste, but all elements of the ecosystem, at all stages of the flow, namely the extraction, processing and consumption of natural resources.