Brazil's new national policy on solid waste: challenges and opportunities

Brazil, one of the world's largest developing countries, has recently introduced a new solid waste management regulatory policy. This new regulatory policy will have implications for a wide variety of stakeholders and sets the stage for opportunities and lessons to be learned. These issues are discussed in this article. © 2013 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

A política nacional de resíduos sólidos e o plano diretor municipal de Rio Claro/SP: o uso como instrumento para a gestão urbano-ambiental municipal

Due to the large economic development associated with the growing consumerist lifestyle of our capitalist society, the problem of uncontrolled solid waste generation worsens, which one is considered to be one of the main responsible factors for environmental degradation. As a case study and in order to solve the problem of large generation of municipal solid waste, this work aims to study the “plano diretor” of Rio Claro city, São Paulo. The “plano diretor” is a municipal law that provides guidelines for the administration of the city, which include guidelines for the management of solid waste generated in the city. The guidelines required in order to write the “plano diretor” are provided by the national law “estatuto da cidade”, providing information for the planning and development of the cities, as well as the management of the urban environment. However, only the “estatuto da cidade” does not provide enough instructions for creating management plans in order to solve the many problems from the urban environment. Thus, studies have been done about urban and environmental management, to understand how municipal management plans should be structured. As a form of seeking information that can complement the “plano diretor” to the creation of policies for managing solid waste of the city, the “Política Nacional de Resíduos Sólidos”(PNRS) emerges in 2010 as a document which provides principles, objectives and guidelines to create plans for Solid Waste Management at the national, state, regional and municipal levels. Therefore, it was possible to make a joint analysis of the “plano diretor” of Rio Claro with the PNRS to identify what is already done within the municipality about the solid waste management, and identify which aspects are most significant in the municipal solid waste management that the national policy provides. Yet studies have been done on the current municipal solid waste management...

Decomposition of residential and light commercial solid waste in test lysimeters /

"Contract number 68-03-0315."

Leachate damage assessment : case study of the Fox Valley Solid Waste Disposal Site in Aurora, Illinois /

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Leachate damage assessment : case study of the Peoples Avenue Solid Waste Disposal Site in Rockford, Illinois /

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Worldwide solid waste literature : collection/retrieval services available from EPA /

Publisher location came from U.S. EPA About EPA, Mailing addresses and phone numbers webpage.

Solid waste facts.

Issued May 1978.

Comparative estimates of post-consumer solid waste /

Includes bibliographical references (p. 18).

The relationship of solid waste storage practices in the inner city to the incidence of rat infestation and fires /

"A current report on solid waste management"--Cover.

An accounting system for solid waste shredders /

Caption title.

Information about hazardous waste management facilities /

On cover: A current report on solid waste management.

A solid waste estimation procedure: material flows approach /

"May 1975"--Cover.

Hazardous waste management facilities in the United States /

EPA/530/SW-146.2.

Industrial waste management : seven conference papers.

On cover: A current report on solid waste management.

Heuristic routing for solid waste collection vehicles,

"An environmental protection publication (SW-113) in the solid waste management series."