Produção de Biojoias através da reutilização das cascas do sururu

Abstract

This project propose an alternative for the deliberate discarding of the sururu shells with the development of a collection of Biojoias, focused on the riverside communities near the Mundaú Lagoon. The shell of the sururu can be transformed into earrings, necklace, ring and bracelet, later generating an alternative income for the local community, the main source of subsistence is the fishing of the sururu, clams and seafood and will increase even more the sustenance of the productive chain of sururu with the practice of craftsmanship linked to the design in the production of a line of Biojoias. The sururu is a fundamental bivalve mollusk in the Alagoas cooking and was registered in 2014 as Intangible Heritage of Alagoas, being to this day, its fishing by fishermen and shellfish, in a primitive way and its obtaining is subject to the seasonality of rains, pollution, dirt, lagoon and other factors that increase the dynamism of financial variation. The situation of the group that borders Mundaú Lagoon is very vulnerable because they are subject to poor sanitary conditions, housing and quality of life. Another aggravating factor is the irregular disposal of the sururu bark on the beds of Dique Estrada Avenue, implying the deterioration of the environment, strong odor, attraction of vectors of diseases such as: rodents, flies and other insects. In Maceió, the collection of these wastes is carried out by SLUM (Superintendency of Urban Cleaning of Maceió), which are mostly deposited in unstructured sanitary neighborhood landfills causing contamination of the groundwater because the shells are slow decomposed. The collection of Biojoias intends to act as the design and sustainability of the product for the community, and their have a others applications that are not being fully reused besides encouraging the action of the circular economy, entrepreneurship and social development with the reutilization of these shells, solving and serving as subsistence possibility, so as to enable them in the transformation of the houses of sururu into Biojoias.