Cities are struggling to recycle urban waste
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Sao Paulo City Hall announced it will reduce the funds for the sweeping of garbage because of the financial crisis that has reduced the municipal tax collection
Litter is one of the great challenges of the Brazilian cities in the 21st century. The population grows. It is increasingly important to recycle. But what if the garbage is separated and there is a selective collection system effective? Where are you?
The city of Sao Paulo announced that it will reduce the funds for the sweeping of garbage because of the financial crisis that has reduced the municipal tax collection.
A threat to the environment in Rio de Janeiro. Some of the trash accumulated during 30 years in landfill Garden Gramacho can stop in the Guanabara Bay. The landfill is doomed, but continues to receive eight thousand tons of garbage a day, 80% of what is produced in the metropolitan area.
The streets, lack structure and sometimes education. Residents of Recife do not respect the schedule of collection. They put the trash any day, any time. Recife has no public landfill and the waste is deposited in a private landfill in a neighboring municipality.
Almost half of all waste collected in the country is disposed of improperly. Will stop in makeshift dumps or landfills.
"It's much worse. There are 20 tons per day and do not know the fate of this amount of waste. There are 20 tons willing headwaters of rivers, streets, exposed to the weather, "said the president of the Brazilian Association of Public Hygiene and Special Waste João Carlos David.
In the city of Sao Paulo is 15 tons discarded every day. One of the main landfill has been disabled by reaching the limit of capacity. Result: 80% of the waste ends up in other municipalities.
To reduce this mountain of problem, the solution depends on measures to encourage recycling.
In a house all the garbage is properly separated. There are two bins: one for recyclable material such as paper, plastic, glass. Another is for organic waste such as food scraps. An example of environmental consciousness that involves the whole family.
John washes the pet bottle and then throw in the trash for recyclable. Carolina prepares popcorn and the package goes to the same place. The boys' father is trustee of the condominium. It took the homework for the whole building. But bumped into the bureaucracy. Three months ago he asked to be part of the selective collection of the city, but entered the waiting list, "Shake discouraging people to do the selective collection.
Residents separate the garbage, without much success because everything ends mixed by collecting common. "There needs to improve collection. Has accumulated a lot of garbage, "complains one resident.
In the city of Sao Paulo, only 1% of the garbage is collected by collection. In some cities in the South, the selective collection works best, enough to cover the entire population. Case of Porto Alegre, which implemented a new system this year and increased the target to collect 100 tons per day.
In Curitiba, the food is worth as an incentive. The four pounds of recyclable material delivered, the donor receives a pound of food. For months, are 280 tons of waste that can be recycled.
Each resident of Sao Paulo produces up to 1.5 pounds of garbage a day. Much could be recycled. The problem is to forward this material for recycling.
Source: Bom Dia Brazil
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