Open AccessPROPOSTA DE COLETA SELETIVA PARA PONTOS DE ÔNIBUS NAS PROXIMIDADES DO CAMPUS II DE PRESIDENTE PRUDENTE – SP
Author(s) -
Bruna Oliveira Silva,
Hugo Ichikawa de Campos,
Rafael Henrique Garcez Nicolau,
Isabela Marega Rigolin Fuzeto
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
colloquium exactarum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2178-8332
DOI - 10.5747/ce.2018.v10.nesp.000183
Subject(s) - municipal solid waste , population , solid waste management , waste collection , business , geography , waste management , environmental science , engineering , environmental health , medicine
– Improperly discarded solid waste has become a growing problem,proportional to population growth. There is a very worrying picture regardingthe disposal of solid waste in the country. Poorly discarded waste often turnsinto environmental problems with costly and complex management.Therefore, the present project had the objective of quantifying the recyclablesolid waste discarded in the vicinity of the Unoeste Campus II bus stops, inPresidente Prudente - SP, and thus propose an environmentally adequatecollection and disposal. The work was done in two stages, the first being thecollection of the residues at the selected points at specific times and thesecond being the separation and weighing of the same, synthesizing the resultsinto tables in order to do the statistical design. The total weight of thecollected residues in the morning, afternoon and night periods was 24.9 kg.According to the statistical projection, in one year a total of 968.4 kg of wastewould be inappropriately discarded in urban roads, thus requiring strategiccollection points, as well as the environmental education of the population asa whole