Descarte irregular dos resíduos sólidos: uma investigação socioespacial na cidade de Maceió/AL

Abstract

This study has as principal objective to analyze the places of inadequate deposition of Urban Solid Waste (USW) in the districts that compose the administrative region 7 of the city of Maceió / AL, and to observe the contributors which share these actions, which bring serious damages to the environment and the society, altering the ecology. This situation is one of the great problem faced by the districts, which has been going on for generations. The technological advancement of products allows them to become more complex in their composition, hence, harder to enter the natural decomposition process. The logic of rampant consumerism expands as a necessity for the society and imposes new models of survival and the use of products that are increasingly disposable, thus generating an exorbitant amount of waste disposed of inappropriately daily, and this was generated several grounded discussions in sustainable proposals, which established definitions and laws aimed at Solid Waste. The research has its methodology supported by the Systemic Approach, with the aim of applying a dynamic look from the totality, and not a mechanistic thinking dissipating the whole, but starting from the assumption that the world is a net, that all parts are in interaction. Based on Bertalanfy (1975), Capra (1996), among others. The technical procedures include the reading of documents and data provided by the Superintendency of Sustainable Development of Maceió (SUDES), and of the other State agencies that are responsible for urban cleaning, and the legislation that governs the final disposition of the USWs. Finally, a georeferencing of each identified point was made, where we could observe the applicability of public policies. The research will contribute to subsidize the actions of managers and government agencies, through a systemic management of waste. Moreover, making the population aware of their participation to district’s ecology.