ECONOMIC FEASIBILITY OF RECYCLING DOMESTIC WASTE FROM THE CITY OF COIMBRA - USING THE GREEN-EN APPLICATION

Abstract

This work will show the operation and applicability of the VERDES-PT software, using the city of Coimbra as an analysis. The generation of solid domestic waste has been increasing a lot in the last decades, the public agencies responsible for the management of this waste, have been adopting recycling as one of the ways to reuse urban waste, not only as raw material, but also as a generator of jobs and income to classes with less educational background. The private sector, together with local governments, are together in projects to implement recycling plants. The city of Coimbra has an annual potential of € 31,017,431.00 million euros, when reverse logistics is applied, using VERDES –PT, these values ​​could be returned to public coffers, if the selective collection for 100% of the its generation of urban waste. But, as will be seen in this article, the city loses 14 million euros per year, for not adopting a waste management policy that takes full advantage of its generation, but even so, it still generates 2,362 minimum wage jobs per year with the recycling of urban waste already implemented in the city.