Administração pública municipal de resíduos sólidos em Santa Maria – RS: uma reflexão ambiental

Abstract

The urban waste emerges as a major challenge. The possibility of energy generation through these materials generated in abundance is presented as a correct environmental alternative. The municipal managers are responsible for the conduct of the city in several aspects, including in the environmental area. Therefore, it is essential that they have knowledge on how to use urban solids wastes, which are usually considered only as a reject of the population rather than as inputs that can generate dividends. The environmental education is a mechanism for disseminating information and seeking to promote individual awareness over his role in the environment in which is inserted. Thus, municipal managers have to internalize the importance of conducting its management according to sustainable development. The methodology used was interviews through a questionnaire, being held with municipal managers from Santa Maria - RS in order to understand how the public management manages the solid waste and which are the future prospects. It was verified the absence of an integrated management of solid waste, and the lack of information and actions compatible with environmental concern. This sets a context of concern, because whereas the local managers themselves do not have a close relationship with the environmental aspects neither with its importance as a way to change the context of harm to the environment. So, conduct the environmental education to society becomes inefficient, because the scenario does not contribute with these efforts. At the end of the interviews with municipal managers were given a brochure explaining how to use solid waste, in order to instigate the local government about the environmental issues through the use of urban solid waste to generate energy. This has the intention to bring out discussions on managers responsible for leading the city towards to the efficient environmental education and to the promotion of improvements in the environment through the transformation of urban waste into energy benefit to the population.