Os agentes ambientais e a logística reversa dos resíduos sólidos urbanos na cidade de Juiz de Fora - MG

Abstract

Due to the growing and diverse generation of urban solid waste and the establishment of an inadequate management system, the environmental, economic and social problems, all related to the public health and the contamination of soil and water, have gotten worse. In the face of this urban context, reproduced worldwide, it is presented as a specific objective to evidence the reverse logistics informal activity, conducted by the garbage collectors, and its ability to expand the productive possibilities of the reverse technology and enhance the energetic and material reduction, reuse and recycling of solid waste produced daily. In order to evaluate the relationship between street workers (garbage collectors), the work environment and the quality of life that characterizes their habits and actions in the city of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, were analyzed measured data in 2008 and repeated in 2010 and 2011, based on a multidisciplinary theoretical reference with the aim of enabling a detailed analysis of the reality of the municipal management of solid waste in comparison to the national reality. The search for a greater efficiency of management policies of solid waste and the integration of this system is directly related to the awareness of their generators and the commitment of several sectors, public and private. By analyzing the environmental, economic and social potential of the reduction, reuse and recycling, energetic and material, of solid waste generated and collected in the city, we could infer that the proper management of waste has been associated to a greater sustainability of the reverse logistics operations and reintegration of goods and materials to the production cycle.