Marisa Soares Borges

PhD Chemistry Engineering

Federal University of Parana

Curitiba, Brazil

Curitiba Santa Felicidade Typical European

neighborhood: Center of gastronomy

Production of cheeses, salami, wine

Production of beer

Churrasco: A typical Brazilian …

Square of Japan

The express bus system, a not expensive

solution to urban transportation, and it is

now adopted in over 100 cities around the

world.

Sustainable city

Reuse resources, finding new ways to spend

less energy and knowing how to use without

waste (water, electricity, and other materials).

Investigating Curitiba and its

Waste Management practices

Waste policies and legislation

Exposing the social attitudes to waste

Waste prevention methods and best practices

1 Curitiba's waste policies and

legislation

Waste streams from residential, commercial and industrial users in

an effort to create an effective solid waste recycling program. The

household waste can be further broken down into the following

components:

Organic Waste;

Waste Recycling;

Waste Plants;

Waste of Health Services;

Wastes of Construction;

Hazardous Waste.

Yard Waste

Curitiba has an integrated solid waste

Environmental education in

schools

Selective collection

created technical

conditions for the

implementation of a

recycling plant and

composting in the city.

Description

This initiative began in 1989, the "Garbage That Is Not

Garbage", started with an environmental education in

schools.

A booklet was distributed to the population and began

collecting household and supermarkets, where

recyclables are exchanged for vouchers purchased.

Education eco-design, implementing prevention

especially starting with our young, is the only way to

success in heading towards zero waste.

2 Exposing the social attitudes

towards the waste

The Green Exchange Program was established in 1991

and is the exchange of waste horticultural products for

recycling at the time.

Currently there are 78 exchange points, where each

month are benefiting some 7,000 people and distributed

approximately 44 tons of food.

"Waste that is not Garbage“

Program

The recyclable waste is

collected by 23 trucks.

Aims increase the separation

of recyclable waste at source,

in order to reduce the material

destined for the landfill and

increase recycling rates.

3 Waste prevention methods and best

practices

The Green Exchange Program

It is the exchange recyclable waste for horticulture.

The exchange is made on a fortnightly service units deployed in the city of Curitiba, according to annual schedule established by the Municipal Environment.

Collection Program Household

Special Waste (Hazardous Waste)

Special collection in

24 bus terminals.

Cooking oils: it is

transformed into soap,

detergent and raw

material for making

other products.

As a result

45,125 tons of garbage.

This amount of recycled material represents a

savings of 195,252,646 liters of water that would

be used if 45 000 tons of new material had to be

produced.

Recycling one ton of paper saves

29,202 liters of water

Recycling returns to the productive cycle,

saving precious environmental resources for

living beings, water, minerals and energy.

Recycling paper saves trees. Every 50 pounds

of recycled paper avoids the cutting of a tree.

The 4,513 tons of paper sent by the Exchange

for the Green Recycling prevented the cutting of

90,263 trees.

Estimates

Estimates of the quantity of solid waste

generated and its origins are important factors in

developing an effective solid waste management

plan.

In order to obtain accurate estimates for the

quantity and source of solid waste for particular

municipalities, a study of all private and

municipal haulers and area landfills is

necessary.

Management tool

Using sources of information including state

regulatory agencies, previous solid waste plans,

the individual municipalities and local waste

haulers.

These estimates are critical for developing a

solid waste management plan.

Leftovers

Why businesses should turn their food waste

into compost

Companies large and small can do more to

ensure that leftovers from restaurants and

catered events don't end up as landfill.