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Management Urban Solid Wastes in Tarumã and Teodoro Sampaio Cities, Brazil

This research established itself as an objective look at the general management of domestic solid wastes generated in Tarumã and Teodoro Sampaio cities, with the finality of proposing actions to the integrated management of the municipal solid wastes. We investigated the generation, treatment and allocation of domestic solid wastes, besides those generated in the production process of Sugar and Alcohol Usina Nova America, and its participation in the economic life of the Power Plant of screening and composting of Tarumã. This research permited us to understand the importance of an integrated solid wastes management aiming to combat and minimize environmental impacts associated themselves even so, emphasize the necessity to articulate the sorting plant of domestic solid wastes collection with the selective in Tarumã and turn able the selective collection in Teodoro Sampaio, granting so, social gains, operational, economic, and environmental education gains the cities.

Integrated Management; Urban solid waste; Garbage pickers


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