Gestão dos resíduos eletrônicos da UFSM: viabilidade e implementação de uma política de reciclagem.

Abstract

Much time has passed until the man began to realize that all development brings besides comfort, practicality and convenience significant impacts to nature. In this scenario, the development of electronics, even considered a development mechanism "clean" elements contributes highly harmful to the environment. This study aims to give an overview of the relationship of administrative activities with respect to the purchase of computer equipment, disposal and management of waste electronic computer at the Federal University of Santa Maria. With the expansiveness of academic activities in the institution comes the need to purchase new electronic equipment and the constant exchange of old models, motivated by the installation of new laboratories, and the demand for computers with more processing capacity to meet the evolution of software, inevitably generate the generation of a large amount of electronic waste. Disposal of these wastes causes need if available forms of storage as well as a proper disposal of these wastes where the institution needs to present the academic community that forms one correct way of managing these wastes can serve as a model for the entire society because junk mail is a problem for all of us.