HOW MUCH DOES IT COST AND HOW MUCH DOES THE DOMESTIC WASTE GENERATED PER DAY, MONTH AND YEAR IN THE CITY OF GUARULHOS - A SOCIOECONOMIC VIEW OF ITS REMAINS

Abstract

  This work shows the functioning and applicability of the VERDES program, using the city of Guarulhos, SP. The generation of domestic solid waste has been increasing greatly in recent decades, the public agencies responsible for the management of this waste have adopted recycling as one of the ways to reuse urban waste, not only as raw material, but also as a generator of employment and income to classes with less educational training. Private initiative and local governments are together in projects to implement recycling plants, still insipid and without scale results. The city of Guarulhos has an annual potential of R$ 613,477,969.00, when reverse logistics is applied, using VERDES, part of these values could return to public coffers, if selective collection was adopted for 100% of its urban waste generation and it was recycled. But, as seen in this article, the city loses 380 million reais per year, by not adopting a waste management policy that takes advantage of the total of its generation, even so, it still generates 15,865 jobs of a minimum wage per year with the recycling of urban waste already implemented in the city in a formal/informal way.