Open AccessEconomic Viability for a Large-Scale Model of Municipal Solid Waste Treatment in the Most Important Brazilian Economic Region
Author(s) -
Octavio Pimenta Reis Neto
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of innovative science and research technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2456-2165
DOI - 10.38124/ijisrt20may595
Subject(s) - municipal solid waste , waste management , urban waste , scale (ratio) , environmental science , engineering , geography , cartography
Despite the National Policy for Solid Waste (PNRS) in 2010, nothing has changed to the waste disposal in Brazil. Planned to reach 100% of all Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) collected and treated in landfills by Aug. 2 nd, 2014, until nowadays, 42% of this total remains in dumps. Even the most important national economic region treating its urban waste in landfills, what it has is no more than 4% of recycling and its landfills reaching the exhaustion.