Jogando limpo: estudo das destinações finais dos resíduos sólidos da construção civil no contexto urbano de Montes Claros

Abstract

The matter of construction and demolition waste (CDW) and its impacts is dramatic and a paradox on the process of development in Brazil. The more the cities grow bigger, the more they produce this kind of waste, which can be found in even bigger numbers than the domestic solid waste. The public politics in Brazil have just recently noticed the dimension of its problem related to the development of building and reorganizing the cities. Montes Claros doesn’t have a different history, dimension or physical characteristics: it has been trough an accelerated transformation and growth on the last decades. Montes Claros presents, as in many other cities in Brazil, the dilemma related to the solid waste final destination, mainly to the CDW. CDW is suffocating the quality of the city urban landscape. This research is supposed to develop a study on all the final destinations used for CDW and its results in the urban area of Montes Claros. We have researched the ways it happens on the streets, public areas and official disposals. We have looked up to the general situation and its impacts on the public urban services. It’s necessary to call attention to 3 different aspects: first, the matter of solid waste in general; second, the project of adjustment called CASCO, developed by the public administration from 2006 to 2008. In third place, the role of the wagon owners after the CASCO project started, 2007 and 2008. The methods used consisted on analysis of reports, interviews, participation in meetings, technical visitations and the work with the Public Administration in Montes Claros. Besides those, scientific publications were studied, pictures taken, and managing reports and sheets accessed. Even having so much done by Public Administrations, the delay and the cultural aspects of bad habits already in the society makes this work done to become only a nice try to make the urban area less unsustainable or more supportable.