Comercialização de materiais recicláveis: o caso dos empreendimentos econômicos solidários de Alagoas no ano 2022

Abstract

Solid waste, according to ABNT Standard 10004:2004, is the resulting from human activities of industrial, commercial, hospital, domestic, agricultural, services and sweeping. So the generation is growing and driven by increased consumption of services and products, industrial activities and population growth. However, with reverse logistics, selective collection and recycling it is possible to mitigate the effects of the increased waste generation. To this end, the cooperatives and associations of collectors perform the process of selective collection in the streets of municipalities and within the headquarters of the enterprises occurs a process of segregation and processing of recyclable material giving the necessary inputs to the recycling value chain. This work aimed to characterize the commercialization of corrugated cardboard in solidary economic enterprises in the cities of Coruripe, Maceió, and Marechal Deodoro. The methodology used was qualitative and descriptive through a bibliographic survey, semi-structured interviews, and primary data collection. As a result was observed that 40% of the recyclables collected by the groups studied consist of corrugated cardboard, which is commercialized directly to middlemen and scrap dealers. Furthermore, there are critical points, such as: high transportation costs, quantities of cardboard that do not meet the demand and lack of storage space that prevent the cardboard from being marketed directly to recycling industries.