POLÍTICAS PÚBLICAS AMBIENTAIS: Coleta e reciclagem de lixo no Município de Goiânia

Abstract

Humanity is using more natural resources than the planet is capable of restoring. The great current challenge is to program a form of sustainable development in a fast and efficient way. With the shortage of the natural resources, added to the disordered growth of the world population and the intensity of the environmental impacts, a conflict arises between the sustainability in the economic and natural systems, resulting in the protection of the environment as strategic and urgent theme. The problem of the urban solid residues becomes more complex as the volume of produced garbage increases. Through the application of treatment techniques, a reduction of the garbage volume to be buried can be obtained, as places destined to that residue type are insufficient. Recycling stands out among those techniques, as it provides environmental, social and economical benefits. The need to awake the population to the importance of the selective collection and of the recycling it is urgent, so that garbage can cease to be such an onerous problem for public funds and, mainly, so that that same garbage becomes an ally of the environment, serving even as raw material and avoiding the destruction of nature (GROSSI and BRAVE, 2001). In 2007 the services of urban cleaning (sweeping and garbage collection), as well as the administration of the solid residues of Goiânia, were assumed by the city hall (previously they were subcontracted). The city hall of Goiânia developed a project for recycling urban garbage, seeking to propose a reduction in the garbage volume destined to the sanitary dump of the capital, with partnerships between the municipal district and cooperatives that will execute the recycling of the material collected by the city hall. In the project it is foreseen that the municipal public agencies will have to separate the materials susceptible to recycling and that Comurg (Urbanization Company of Goiânia), currently responsible for the collection, should deliver the material to the cooperatives.