Gerenciamento dos resíduos sólidos orgânicos em feira livre: estudo de caso do Mercadão 2000, Santarém-PA

Abstract

The organic solid waste when managed improperly can cause major problems, both to the population regarding the environment, due to your potential polluter. With that in mind, this work aims to carry out an evaluation the management of organic waste produced at market 2000, in the municipality of Santarém-PA, in addition to quantify the waste generated at the fair. Thus, were determined to gravimetric composition, specific weight and the total mass of organic solid waste generated at the fair at SRPA in market 2000. From the results, it was found that the organic solid waste generation is high, before other types of residues, having a percentage of mass of 95.14 percent, while paper and plastic added not 5% of the total mass of the waste, the specific weight of residues of the fair is to 232.75 kg/m ³, with per capita amount of 6.5 kg/day and grocer daily generation 1.3 tons, tons to 437.94 the year. This information is important to improve the planning of management that extends from the collection to the final disposal of this waste, , considering that once directed to a landfill or a landfill, these can cause serious problems for the environment, once the Organic Matter To ME is primarily responsible for the production of methane manure in a landfill, both with a high pollution potential.