MEDIDAS MITIGATÓRIAS DE IMPACTOS AMBIENTAIS E SANITÁRIOS NA CADEIA PRODUTIVA DE ETANOL NO PERÍODO DE 2014/2015 NO MUNICÍPIO DE GOIANÉSIA, ESTADO DE GOIÁS.

Abstract

At the beginning of the decade of 1970, in the face of the crisis in international petroleum prices, several nations realized that it was necessary to reduce the dependence of their energy matrixes of the consumption of fossil fuel and, in particular, the use of oil and pressure on the part of international organizations, which showed that it was necessary to considerably reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions responsible for global warming caused, mainly, by the use of fossil fuels. It was in this context that has intensified the demand for new alternative sources of fuels that generate less polluting impacts to the planet. Brazil was one of the pioneering countries in introducing innovations in the production of so called renewable fuels with use of bioethanol extracted from sugar cane. In the present work, the objectives to analyze the environmental and health issues in ethanol production plants in the municipality of Goianésia, checking what are the established mitigating measures adopted by the companies to reduce the maximum the impacts on the environment. This study adopted the method of case study, performed through interviews; bibliographic are search, documental and observation. The results were compared with academic Articles, documents and government data. In the study of plants installed in the municipality has observed that they meet international standards environmental regulations and working steadily for mitigating the maximum environmental and heal this sues caused by cultivation and production of ethanol.