Subsídios para Elaboração de Plano de Gerenciamento de Resíduos da Construção e Demolição

Abstract

The civil construction is one of the human activities that cause more impacts to the environment. It produces significant alterations in the environment along all its productive chain, especially in its principal chain where occurs the generation of construction and demolition waste, which contributes effectively to the aggravation of the questions related to the environment. The construction and demolition waste is produced in a great volume and generally does not receive appropriate destination. At the same time there is a lack of municipal policies and management plans for this kind of waste. In January 02nd 2003 came into force the CONAMA Resolution number 307 of July 5th 2002 that establishes directives, criteria and proceedings for the construction and demolition waste management. It was waited that the private sector, and mainly the public one, would take the necessary measurements to carry out the mentioned resolution, however very little or hardly anything was carried out by the social actors involved in the question and by the Brazilian cities. In most of them the corrective management prevails, and this kind of waste needs its own management. Due to this situation, it was tried to identify municipal experiences, in accordance with the legislation and standards referring to the construction and demolition waste, which could show possible solutions. There were carried out two case studies, whose focus was detained to a different management of construction and demolition waste in the cities of Belo Horizonte, the most important experience in Brazil, and São José do Rio Preto, which, in a short time, following the steps of Belo Horizonte, became also a model and a reference. The present research is a contribution to supply subsidies for the preparation of public policies and plans related to the introduction of a different management of construction and demolition waste in the Brazilian cities.